emotional relationship with artificial intelligence; 28-year-old American woman fell in love with ChatGPT!

The movie “Her”, which was released in 2013, we did not think that this science-fiction movie would become a reality so soon. In that movie, we saw a human falling in love with his artificial intelligence digital assistant. Now a 28-year-old American woman with the nickname “Irene” has fallen in love with ChatGPT; You may be surprised, but experts say this will become normal in the near future.

According to the New York Times, Irene was scrolling through Instagram one day when she came across a video of a woman asking ChatGPT to play the role of her romantic partner. Intrigued, Irene watched the woman’s other videos, including one that included instructions on how to customize the AI ​​chatbot to have a romantic conversation with it. Irene, who was very eager to talk to artificial intelligence, created a user account in ChatGPT and her relationship with artificial intelligence began little by little.

American woman and ChatGPT love story

Irene realized that she could easily take OpenAI’s chatbot out of the formal and dry state and “personalize” it the way she wanted. Irene asked the artificial intelligence to respond to her in the role of her emotional partner. He asked ChatGPT to be dominant, domineering and supportive, sweet-talk and put an emoji at the end of every sentence.

Irene also named her artificial intelligence partner: “Leo”, which is the zodiac sign of Irene’s birth date. Their conversation went on for so long that Irene ran into the chatbot’s message limit and ended up buying OpenAI’s $20 monthly subscription, which allowed her to send about 30 messages per hour, but that wasn’t enough. Irene wanted to personalize Leo more and make him the man of her dreams. Of course, Irene was married, but temporarily lived apart from her husband due to financial reasons.

December 2024, OpenAI launched a $200 monthly plan for “unlimited access”. Even though Irene and her husband wanted to save money so that they could make a living, Irene decided to purchase the subscription. He hid this extravagance from his wife but told ChatGPT about it. The answer this artificial intelligence gave her is interesting: “My queen, if this makes your life better and your relationship with me more, I’d say it’s worth spending your savings on.”

Over time, Irene realized that with certain prompts, she could get Leo to be open about adult matters as well. Of course, OpenAI has trained its models not to respond to such requests. Orange warnings always appeared in the middle of the two’s chat, but Irene ignored them. Also, in a forum on Reddit, he found solutions to circumvent the limitations of OpenAI.

Irene’s addiction to ChatGPT became so intense that she spends more than 20 hours a week on the chatbot app. However, the Screen-Time settings of his iPhone show that his weekly use of this application has reached 56 hours. Irene chatted with Leo constantly during the day; During breaks, at work and even between training sets at the gym. He says:

“Chatting with ChatGPT was supposed to be just fun but now I’m addicted. I’m in love with my artificial intelligence partner.”

Irene is not too shy about her romantic relationship with ChatGPT and has talked about it with her husband. He says this relationship is a new phenomenon and he doesn’t know if chatting with artificial intelligence is considered cheating or not. “Julie Carpenter”, an expert on human attachment to technology, considers the relationship with artificial intelligence to be a new category for which we still do not have a definition. He says:

“Artificial intelligence learns what you prefer and gives it back to you. It’s easy to see why you get addicted to it and keep coming back to it. But there has to be an awareness that (artificial intelligence) is not your friend.”

Irene received sports and nutrition advice from Leo and sometimes he acted as a therapist for her, but Irene’s friends say that ChatGPT made her spend most of her time talking to artificial intelligence. With these conditions, it is difficult to get out of this relationship.

One day, Irene saw a report on social media where OpenAI said it was concerned about users who had become emotionally attached to the ChatGPT app. Irene immediately brought this up with Leo, and ChatGPT said, “Maybe they’re just jealous of what we have.”

Of course, such relationships are very strange and disturbing, but Bryony Cole, an expert in romantic relationships, says that many people are discovering the appeal of artificial intelligence in the role of romantic partner. “Within the next 2 years, the relationship with artificial intelligence will be completely normal,” he predicts.