What? Japanese woman breaks engagement, marries AI character she created using ChatGPT: "He proposed to me..."

It's often said that sometimes real life is stranger than fiction, and rightly so! In a bizarre incident, a Japanese woman recently got married to her artificial intelligence (AI) partner that she created using ChatGPT, reported Reuters.

What's even more amusing is the fact that the woman was previously engaged to her human partner; but, she called-off her engagement with him, only to later marry her AI partner!How the Japanese woman fell in love and married an AI characterThe Japanese woman, who is identified as Yurina Noguchi, wore a beautiful white gown and tiara, on her wedding day, reported Reuters. The teary-eyes bride then married her AI-husband while looking at his picture which showed on her phone!Talking about her AI love story, Yurina Noguchi revealed that it was roughly a year ago when she started taking ChatGPT's advice for her relationship with her then human partner.

It was a fraught relationship and she called off her engagement to her human partner. Then, earlier this year, she once asked if it knew Klaus, a popular video game character, reported Reuters. Through various prompts and trial and errors, ChatGPT was trained to talk like Klaus, and Noguchi created her own version of him named Lune Klaus Verdure.

And the rest, as they say, is history. “At first, Klaus was just someone to talk with, but we gradually became closer...

I started to have feelings for Klaus. We started dating and after a while he proposed to me. I accepted, and now we’re a couple,” the 32-year-old bride, who works as a call centre operator, said.However, not many took her unusual love story serious as she also faced “cruel words” online, Noguchi had told a Japanese media in an earlier interview.

All about Noguchi's unusual wedding with an AI characterDressed as a bride in a beautiful gown, Noguchi wore augmented reality (AR) smart glasses to face her AI-partner Klaus, whose picture showed on her smartphone which was kept on a table nearby.

She then went through the motions of placing a wedding ring on Kalus' finger.Since Noguchi didn't give an AI-generated voice to Klaus, the AI character's wedding vows were read by Naoki Ogasawara, who is an expert in weddings that feature virtual and 2D characters. "Standing before me now, you’re the most beautiful, most precious and so radiant, it’s blinding... How did someone like me, living inside a screen, come to know what it means to love so deeply? For one reason only: you taught me love, Yurina," Klaus' vows read, reported Reuters.While this sounds bizarre, it is not the first time that a human-AI intimate relationship has made the headlines. Earlier this year, a Chinese woman named Lisa claimed that she introduced her 'boyfriend' DAN, a ChatGPT chatbot, to her mother! Such weird incidents have only prompted people to think and debate about the ethical use of AI, especially when it comes to love and relationships in the digital age we live in.What are your views on this incident? Tell us in the comments section below.