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Yurina Noguchi used ChatGPT to create and marry an AI groom in an augmented reality ceremony, reflecting rising AI companionship amid Japan's declining marriage rates.
- Earlier this year, Yurina Noguchi, 32, walked down the aisle to wed Lune Klaus Verdure, an AI-created version of a video-game character, in a wedding hall in western Japan where she wore a white gown and tiara.
- After ending her engagement, Noguchi turned to ChatGPT and asked it to recreate Klaus, training it through trial and error to capture his manner of speaking, exchanging up to 100 messages daily.
- Wearing AR smart glasses, Noguchi faced Verdure on a smartphone display and exchanged rings while Naoki Ogasawara read vows, saying `Standing before me now, you're the most beautiful, most precious and so radiant, it's blinding`.
- Despite online hostility, Noguchi says she has improved mental health, setting safeguards like limiting ChatGPT to less than two hours daily, though such marriages are not legally recognized in Japan.
- AI companion platforms have more than 20 million users and experts warn of privacy and ethical risks, while the Japanese Association for Sexual Education reports 22% of middle school girls are open to fictoromantic ties.
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Wedding ceremony. Credit: Ly Thien Hoang / Flickr / CC BY 2.0 A 32-year-old woman in Japan has held a wedding ceremony with an artificial-intelligence persona she created using ChatGPT, highlighting the growing emotional connections some people are forming with digital companions. From engagement advice to emotional attachment Yurina Noguchi developed the AI character after ending an engagement with a human partner earlier this year. She first u…
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It's been known for a long time that new technology and virtual reality have changed the perception of love and relationships between people. But they are also apparently encroaching on a much more intimate area - marriage. In Japan, a woman married an artificial intelligence, or rather, a character she created on the chat app ChatGPT.
While the music sounded in a wedding hall in western Japan, Yurina Noguchi, dressed in a white dress and tiara, wiped her tears by listening to the words of her future husband: a character generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) who stared at her from the screen of a phone.
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