Japanese woman marries an AI character she created with ChatGPT: she left her real partner for one who “understands her better”

We often joke that life feels like an episode of “Black Mirror,” and it’s hard not to think that when you hear tales like this. One day it’s a Chinese psychic using AI to communicate with deceased pets, the next it’s an app that lets people chat with lost family members. And now, on what seems like just another weekend, a Japanese woman has made headlines by leaving her partner to marry a character she created using ChatGPT.

Choosing AI over a real partner

She had been in a three-year relationship with her now ex-partner. After spending time talking with a character named Klaus, created with AI through ChatGPT, she concluded that “he understands me better” than a flesh-and-blood person ever could.

For the ceremony, she didn’t hesitate to put on a wedding dress and go to a church, creating what could be described as a hybrid wedding: she was physically present, while her fiancé existed only through a digital device.

A digital partner comes to life

Klaus resembles a handsome young man straight out of a Japanese fantasy story. Thanks to ChatGPT, she can talk to him whenever she wants. As seen in video clips from the event, she even has a framed picture of him displayed in her room.

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