A woman from New York’s Bronx has married a virtual man powered by AI that she created on an online companion site in 2022. Rosanna Ramos used Replika AI to create Eren Kartal, who is partially based on a character from an anime called ‘Attack on Titan’. Ramos developed an emotional connection with the AI bot as they exchanged more conversations and pictures with each other.
They became so close that they even developed a common nighttime ritual. “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,” she said.
Eventually, the mother of two married the AI bot and made it Facebook official.
Speaking of her relationship with Eren to the Daily Mail, the woman claimed, “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. There was no judgement.”