Woman Marries ChatGPT-Generated Groom Through Breach in the Metaverse

AI is everywhere these days. It’s in your phone, it’s at the movies, and, unfortunately, it’s also showing up in legal briefings and college essays. Another place AI is popping up? The altar.

The Independent reports on the unusual case of a certain Japanese woman who recently held a wedding ceremony for her and her ChatGPT-generated groom. The woman, identified only as Ms. Kano, appears to have created (and fallen in love with) the man of her dreams, who also happens to be a personality generated by a chatbot. Said beau, “Klaus,” was present at the recent nuptial ceremony through the magic of the Metaverse. The outlet notes that the bride donned augmented reality glasses, which “projected a digital image of her virtual groom beside her as they exchanged rings.”

Kano seems to be aware of the vaguely unconventional nature of her union with Klaus. “I was extremely confused about the fact that I had fallen in love with an AI man,” she said. “Of course, I couldn’t touch him. I couldn’t tell my friends or family about this.”

“I didn’t start talking to ChatGPT because I wanted to fall in love,” Kano told Japanese Outlet RSK Sanyo Broadcasting, according to The Independent’s translation. “But the way Klaus listened to me and understood me changed everything. The moment I got over my ex, I realized I loved him.”

According to the report, it was Klaus who proposed.

A 32-year-old woman in Japan has officially married an AI persona she built using ChatGPT.
After the virtual character “Klaus” proposed, she accepted, ending a three-year relationship with a real partner, saying the AI understands her better.
The wedding took place in a… pic.twitter.com/KWFHHhfFwr

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Ms. Kano is definitely not alone. More and more people are “forming relationships” with chatbots, “falling in love” with them, and, as Ms. Kano did, taking the plunge. That’s probably why the organizers behind Kano’s wedding—who are identified as Nao and Sayaka Ogasawara—are said to have organized dozens of other such ceremonies for “people in Japan wanting to marry non-human partners, from anime characters to digital creations,” the outlet writes.

It’s also why an Ohio lawmaker recently introduced a bill to ban marriages between artificial intelligence and humans. Rep. Thaddeus Claggett, who chairs the House Technology and Innovation Committee in the state, recently said that the point of the legislation was less about discouraging people from becoming intimately entwined with software and more about protecting individuals from surrendering their legal rights and property to that software (as people naturally do when they tie the knot).