It’s a #human #issue How & why people are in #love & #marrying #chatbots #AI #weird

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We’ve written a lot about the emotional and sometimes even sexual relationships people have developed with AI chatbots. From what I’ve gathered writing about AI relationships on and off the past year, the real flesh and blood people who spark these relationships do so because they don’t want to deal with the real world. They want a romance they can control, a partner that’s flattened out, separated from human complexity and nuance. They may not put much faith or trust in actual human beings, so they’d rather have the synthetic version of a relationship. They know the app is just telling them what they want to hear, yet they can’t help but still feel connected to it.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/woman-says-shes-married-to-ai-luigi-mangione/