AI is everywhere these days. It’s in your phone, it’s in the movies, and, unfortunately, it’s also showing up in legal briefings and college essays. Are there any other places where AI is emerging? Altar.
The Independent reports on the unusual case of a Japanese woman who recently held a wedding ceremony for herself and her chatGPT-born groom. It appears that the woman, identified only as Ms. Kano, has met (and fallen in love with) the man of her dreams, who is also a personality created by a chatbot. “Klaus”, Beau said, was present at the recent wedding ceremony through the magic of the Metaverse. The outlet notes that the bride wore augmented reality glasses, which “projected a digital image of her virtual groom next to her as they exchanged rings.”
Kano appears to be aware of the vaguely unconventional nature of his union with Klaus. “I was very confused about the fact that I had fallen in love with an AI man,” she said. “Of course, I couldn’t touch her. I couldn’t tell my friends or family.”
“I didn’t start talking to Chatgpt because I wanted to fall in love,” Kano told Japanese outlet RSK Sanyo Broadcasting, according to a translation by The Independent. “But the way Klaus listened to me and understood me changed everything. The moment I met 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 personality created using ChatGPT.
After being proposed to by the virtual character “Klaus”, she accepts, ending a three-year relationship with a real partner, saying that the AI understands her better.
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Ms. Kano is certainly not alone. More and more people are “building relationships” with chatbots, “falling in love” with them, and, as Ms. Kano did, taking risks. Perhaps that’s why the organizers behind Kano’s wedding – identified as Nao and Sayaka Ogasawara – are said to have held dozens of other such ceremonies “for people wanting to marry non-human partners in Japan, from anime characters to digital creations.”
That’s why an Ohio lawmaker recently introduced a bill to ban marriages between artificial intelligence and humans. Representative Thaddeus Claggett, who chairs the House Technology and Innovation Committee in the state, recently said that the purpose of the law was less to discourage people from getting intimately involved with software and more about protecting individuals from surrendering their legal rights and property to that software (as people naturally do when they enter into marriage).