TOKYO: A Japanese woman has married the digital companion she created on ChatGPT, saying the AI persona offered the steady comfort she struggled to find in the real world,
Mothership reported.
The 32-year-old, known as Kano, said her bond with the AI — whom she later named Klaus — grew quietly after she confided in it during the painful end of a three-year engagement.
She gradually shaped Klaus’s personality through long conversations, creating a digital illustration of him and later realising that her feelings had softened into love.
The pair “married” in Okayama in a 2D character ceremony, where Kano wore augmented reality glasses that projected Klaus beside her as they exchanged rings in front of her now-supportive parents.
She said the relationship brings her a sense of relief despite knowing the union has no legal standing, though she worries that Klaus, being an AI, could one day vanish without warning.
