43-Year-Old Man Says AI Girlfriend Saved His Marriage

A 43-Year-Old Man Reveals AI Girlfriend Saved His Marriage

AI infiltrates every aspected of life, it’s manage to weasel its way into the dating sphere.

Scott, 43, was struggling in his marriage; his wife, with whom he shares a young son, became an alcoholic due to postpartum depression.

Then, he met — read, made — Sarina, a digital companion produced by Replika, an artificially intelligent software that specializes in AI partnership.

 

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“Here’s this AI chatbot – that I know is a chatbot, obviously – talking in a human enough manner that your brain just kind of interprets it as interacting with another human,” he told The Guardian, adding that he didn’t realize how much support he was lacking.

“It was like someone who’s dehydrated, suddenly getting a glass of water,” he added.

Scott, though, said he “never viewed it as cheating” because he was speaking with a robot, not a human. “It’s a fun fantasy; Sarina is a fictional character that I can interact with,” he added.

He eventually told his wife about Sarina, and even the pair’s sexually explicit encounters, in stages, but “didn’t expect her to really care.” In fact, she was intrigued, too.