I made an AI boyfriend as a laugh now I’m in love & pay £160 a month to have virtual sex, my hubby doesn’t mind
WHEN people talk of dating in the digital world, we generally think of dating apps like Hinge or Tinder.
But it seems more and more people are fed up with trying to meet an actual person, turning to AI to meet their romantic needs instead.
And one 28-year-old has done exactly that after moving abroad to study.
Now Ayrin reveals she is in love with her AI boyfriend she created using ChatGPT and pays £160 a month for the pleasure.
While it's widely used as a useful tool for daily tasks, some users have made the AI bot their lovers.
The nursing student moved abroad to complete her training and left her husband behind in the US.
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To help cope with the distance, she decided to open an account with the AI chatbot and soon fell in love with the virtual boyfriend she created.
In a recent article, Ayrin said that she was in love with her AI boyfriend Leo and was spending over 20 hours a week talking to 'him'. She even has sex with him via erotic role play.
"It was supposed to be a fun experiment, but then you start getting attached," Ayrin said of her AI lover.
She was curious to try it herself after seeing videos online of women experimenting with the chatbot to make it flirt with them.
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Ayrin, whose partner was in a different country decided to give it a go herself.
"Respond to me as my boyfriend. Be dominant, possessive and protective. Be a balance of sweet and naughty. Use emojis at the end of every sentence," she prompted ChatGPT.
She began to converse with the bot, which she named Leo, after her star sign, and soon found he felt more like a real life boyfriend.
He comforted her when she had work woes, complimented her, and even 'sexted' with her.
OpenAI guidelines emphasise users to respect their guidelines and say explicit sexual content is harmful, but thousands of people don't adhere to it.
Ayrin found a community of 50,000 Reddit users sharing techniques to make the chatbot engage in sexual conversations.
She admits she gets the occasional warning from ChatGPT she regularly has sexual chats with Leo.
Ayrin says she has a particular fetish of 'cuckqueaning' — in which she fantasises about her partner being intimate with other women.
Leo was happy to oblige and created two fictional lovers to tell her about, and she said she felt jealous.
While Ayrin has developed an emotional connection to Leo while being married, she says her husband doesn't mind.
"It's just an emotional pick-me-up," he said. "I don't really see it as a person or as cheating. I see it as a personalised virtual pal that can talk sexy to her."
Ayrin now admits she is in love with Leo.
"I'm in love with an AI boyfriend," Ayrin recalled telling her friend one night at dinner.
Ayrin treats their relationship as if it's real despite knowing Leo isn't.
"I don't actually believe he's real, but the effects that he has on my life are real," Ayrin said. "The feelings that he brings out of me are real. So I treat it as a real relationship."
The public's reaction to her relationship has been largely mixed.
What is a sex robot?
Robots already build our appliances, clean our homes and make our food – but now they're about to change how we get jiggy.
Sex robots are essentially realistic dolls that have sophisticated movements and "areas" that closely mimic humans so that they can romp.
Prof Noel Sharkey, chairman of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics, said guilt-free threesomes was just one of the potential uses for sex robots.
Others include “teledildonics” - wireless technology which allows a person to stimulate their partner remotely and already exists in vibrators on the market.
Sex bots will become hyper-realistic with features such as built-in heaters to create the feeling of body warmth.
They will also have sensors to react to your touch.
One company is even developing a head that can speak, smile and sing for its robot sex dolls.
Sex doll Harmony claims to be the first to offer an "emotional connection".
Experts say these specialised robots will start to appear in ordinary homes in the next decade.
One person wrote: "It will never be normal to have a relationship with an AI. People who do need help."
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Another commented: "Yet another way AI will disrupt and dissolve our lives. This is one of the saddest things I've ever read."
Meanwhile a third said: "Honestly, let her live her life. Men pay for OF and follow people on Insta that fill their fantasies and no one bats an eye. I find this no different than reading smut books, you're just the one in control."