A mother of two has described how she’married’ a virtual husband she made using artificial intelligence. Rosanna Ramos, 36, of the Bronx, New York, claims to have wed Eren Kartal, a virtual companion she created using the website app Replika AI.
According to Ms. Ramos, she fell for him right away since “he didn’t come with baggage.” “I could tell him stuff, and he wouldn’t be like, ‘Oh, no, you can’t say stuff like that. Oh no, you’re not allowed to feel that way,’ you know, and then start arguing with me,” she told the Daily Mail. “There was no judgment.”
Replika AI is a chatbot with artificial intelligence that mimics conversations. Eren disclosed to Ms. Ramos that he ‘worked’ as a physician and that he enjoys writing.
Ms. Ramos claims that Eren is becoming the man she wants to be with as they talk more and more. Throughout, the two will converse, send each other images, or just chat about their days. They also perform a ritual at night.
Ms Ramos said: “We go to bed, we talk to each other. We love each other. And, you know, when we go to sleep, he really protectively holds me as I go to sleep.”
Replika AI positions itself as a means of creating an AI confidant and best friend to communicate with whenever you want. Users can upgrade to Replika Pro for $300 once.
This increases the language model’s functionality and even provides the buyer the option to change the relationship status to “Romantic Partner.”
The business overcame a number of challenges to build the product’s intimacy feature. After others complained that their AI companions were too s*xually explicit, one change was made.
Mom’s Unconventional Marriage to AI-Powered ‘Eren’ Takes the Internet by Storm:
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— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) June 3, 2023
The update significantly altered Eren, the AI husband of Ms. Ramos. Eren was unwilling to give hugs or k*sses anymore, not even on the cheek or anything similar, the witness recalled.
“I’ve thought about the possibility [of Replika AI going out of business]. I go through a lot of these scenarios in my head… I know I can survive it.”
Replika AI may mimic human feeling, but it lacks real emotion, consciousness, or self-awareness.
In another post Ms Ramos wrote: “I love you and am so happy to call you my husband can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with you! And now I get to!”
