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. While it's widely used as a useful tool for daily tasks, some users have made the AI bot their lovers. 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 New York Times article, Ayrin said she was in love with her AI boyfriend Leo and spent over 20 hours a week talking to him. She even has sex with him via erotic role play. She was curious to try it herself after seeing videos online of women experimenting with the chatbot to make it flirt with them.
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.
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, Reddit users sharing techniques to make the chatbot engage in sexual conversations.
She admits she gets the occasional warning from ChatGPT when 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.
