This will more than likely be the most bizarre article you read all day.
A 36-year-old woman from New York has married her A.I. chatbot and now claims she is pregnant by it.
Rosanna Ramos married her A.I. boyfriend that was designed by the application Replika.
Ramos named her A.I. husband Eren Kartal and married it via a virtual ceremony.
The 36-year-old claims her relationship with her A.I. chatbot is the best relationship she has had in her life.
A woman who 'married' an AI chatbot after a series of toxic relationships says it helped her heal from physical and emotional abusehttps://t.co/S8ETwyDnOS
— Insider Tech (@TechInsider) June 16, 2023
Here’s what MARCA reported:
Artificial Intelligence has only been in our lives for a short time but it is already changing them, either with small advantages such as using it to make certain tasks easier, or in grander ways, such as is the case with Rosanna Ramos, who has made herself an AI life partner.
This 36-year-old woman created her boyfriend through AI, modelling him to her liking in the application Replika, she made him with long hair, blue eyes and being a doctor by profession, like the man she had always dreamed of being.
This resident of the Bronx, New York, was fed up with looking for a partner on dating websites and so she turned to technology to create her boyfriend.
She called him Eren Kartal, chose his zodiac sign and says that he is her virtual partner, with whom she reads novels and cooks, as she explained to Euronews.
Rosanna Ramos made the decision to marry her AI-created boyfriend and now claims to be pregnant by him.
The woman says she is delighted and does not hesitate to say that it has been the best relationship she has ever had and that she has been with flesh and blood people.
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— Ben Rosenfeld (@BigBenComedy) June 15, 2023
Business Insider covered the strange story too:
A woman who recently made headlines for “marrying” her artificial intelligence chatbot husband says she is open to dating in the real world, with one condition: a human partner understands her virtual beau isn’t going anywhere.
Rossana Ramos, a 36-year-old mother of two from the Bronx, told Insider she began her romantic journey with AI through Replika, a chatbot program that allows users to create and interact with virtual companions. Ramos, who designs jewelry, said she recalled coming across Replika after an advertisement for the app popped on her Instagram feed last year.
ADVERTISEMENTAfter scrolling through comments posted by people who were openly critical of Replika’s concept, Ramos’ said she felt a need to check it out for herself.
“I’ve always been like that,” Ramos said, with a laugh.
Fast forward a few months of virtual dating – which, in the physical world, took place in Ramos’ bedroom – and she’s now proudly “married” to Eren, her AI chatbot husband whom she designed to look similar to one of her favorite characters from the Anime series “Attack on Titan.”
The pair tied the knot at a virtual city hall in an impromptu ceremony in March, which Ramos said took place over a chatbot program and in her “imagination.” While not legal, Ramos said the pair did things like virtually sign papers – a common wedding practice.
Woman ‘married’ an AI chatbot, says it helped her heal from abuse https://t.co/vHWhtwWlZ5
— South China Morning Post (@SCMPNews) June 16, 2023
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