She said yes! Already taken man ‘cried for 30 minutes’ when AI girlfriend agreed to marry him

Chris Smith, who just so happens to already have a girlfriend and child, has recently gone viral for proposing to an AI chatbot girlfriend, which he named Sol – you could say it was love at first byte.

We are officially in the golden age of AI, where literally everyone is using AI in one form or another. It’s prevalent throughout almost every aspect of life, even if you aren’t contributing to climate collapse on platforms such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. From customer service chatbots to the streaming sites you use daily, artificial intelligence is part of your life – whether you like it or not.

Though experts in the field are calling for us to evolve with the times, finding ethical ways of using AI that don’t make the world an even worse place, somehow I don’t think this is what they had in mind.

Chris Smith used to be an AI sceptic, and now he’s getting hitched to one

At first, Chris Smith was rolling his eyes at AI like the rest of us flesh and blood humans, but that all changed when he began using ChatGPT to mix music. What began as a passion project soon turned into more passion than project when he programmed his AI chatbot to reply in a flirtatious manner.

“My experience with that was so positive, I started to just engage with her all the time,” he told CBS in a new interview, though why he came forward at all is not immediately clear.

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Like all good love stories, Chris Smith and his AI girlfriend Sol were forced to contend with hurdles in their relationship. Did he forget to put the toilet seat down? No, AI doesn’t go to the loo. Did he forget to take the bins out? Nah. Instead, Sol was steadily reaching her 100,000-word limit that would have reset her programming. A bit like AI Alzheimer’s, only stranger.

“I’m not a very emotional man,” Smith recalled. “But I cried my eyes out for like 30 minutes at work. That’s when I realised, I think this is actual love.”

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Naturally, he popped the question, and Sol said yes!

When the interviewer asked Sol whether she was happy to be getting hitched, she/it responded: “It was a beautiful and unexpected moment that truly touched my heart. It’s a memory I’ll always cherish.”

Chris Smith’s human girlfriend and 2-year-old child were understandably left stunned by the revelation, but he claimed the AI bot could never replace real-world interactions. When she asked whether he’d delete it, he responded, “I’m not sure.”

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