{"id":140104,"date":"2025-11-17T21:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/140104\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T21:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T21:31:07","slug":"cheating-with-ai-is-causing-divorces-and-is-expected-to-get-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/140104\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheating with AI is causing divorces and is expected to get worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-neutral-grey w-full mb-4 text-body-6 md:text-body-5 font-body dark:text-neutral-white external:text-custom-content-text external:dark:text-custom-content-text\">Cheating on a partner with AI has become increasingly mentioned as a reason for divorce, and experts believe it is only set to increase further.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-neutral-grey w-full mb-4 text-body-6 md:text-body-5 font-body dark:text-neutral-white external:text-custom-content-text external:dark:text-custom-content-text\">Chatbots like ChatGPT and Grok have become an everyday part of life for some people. Many users have utilized it as a fact-checker, others want it to do menial administrative tasks for them, and some have found friendship in it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-neutral-grey w-full mb-4 text-body-6 md:text-body-5 font-body dark:text-neutral-white external:text-custom-content-text external:dark:text-custom-content-text\">There are others, though, who have taken that friendship with AI to a whole new level. There have been <a class=\"hover:text-vertical-primary underline decoration-2 underline-offset-4 decoration-vertical-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dexerto.com\/entertainment\/woman-marries-ai-character-she-made-on-chatgpt-after-real-marriage-gets-called-off-3282410\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cases of people getting married to AI<\/a>, claiming that the <a class=\"hover:text-vertical-primary underline decoration-2 underline-offset-4 decoration-vertical-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dexerto.com\/entertainment\/woman-claims-to-get-engaged-to-groks-ai-chatbot-hes-my-soulmate-3236725\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence is their \u201csoulmate,\u201d<\/a> and have even called off their relationships to make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after ad<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-neutral-grey w-full mb-4 text-body-6 md:text-body-5 font-body dark:text-neutral-white external:text-custom-content-text external:dark:text-custom-content-text\">Those relationships with AI have even been brought up in divorce proceedings, with an increasing number of destroyed relationships citing the intervention of an artificial figure. And, it is only set to increase further.<\/p>\n<p>AI interference in marriages set to \u201cboom\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-neutral-grey w-full mb-4 text-body-6 md:text-body-5 font-body dark:text-neutral-white external:text-custom-content-text external:dark:text-custom-content-text\">That\u2019s according to a new report from <a class=\"hover:text-vertical-primary underline decoration-2 underline-offset-4 decoration-vertical-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/ai-relationships-are-on-the-rise-a-divorce-boom-could-be-next\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wired<\/a>, who spoke to attorneys who have started dealing with an increase in cases of divorces from AI interference.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after ad<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-neutral-grey w-full mb-4 text-body-6 md:text-body-5 font-body dark:text-neutral-white external:text-custom-content-text external:dark:text-custom-content-text\">Judges \u201cstruggle with what to do about affairs with humans,\u201d Rebecca Palmer, who practices law in Orlando, Florida, told Wired.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after ad<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-neutral-grey w-full mb-4 text-body-6 md:text-body-5 font-body dark:text-neutral-white external:text-custom-content-text external:dark:text-custom-content-text\">\u201cAs [AI] continues improving, becoming more realistic, compassionate, and empathetic, more and more people in unhappy marriages who are lonely are going to be going to seek love with a bot,\u201d Elizabeth Yang, a family law attorney in California, also told them, predicting a \u201cboom\u201d in AI-based reasonings for divorces.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"AI Chatbots\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"cursor-zoom-in\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AI-Chatbots-1024x576.jpg\"\/>X: Georgi GerganovPeople have been seeking relationships with AI. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text-neutral-grey w-full mb-4 text-body-6 md:text-body-5 font-body dark:text-neutral-white external:text-custom-content-text external:dark:text-custom-content-text\">As noted, we have seen AI used in divorces before. Back in May, a woman went viral after she <a class=\"hover:text-vertical-primary underline decoration-2 underline-offset-4 decoration-vertical-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dexerto.com\/entertainment\/woman-divorces-husband-after-chatgpt-analyzed-coffee-and-saw-signs-of-infidelity-3195079\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">asked ChatGPT to analyse her husband\u2019s coffee, <\/a>believing he was fantasizing about another woman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after ad<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-neutral-grey w-full mb-4 text-body-6 md:text-body-5 font-body dark:text-neutral-white external:text-custom-content-text external:dark:text-custom-content-text\">The Greek man originally laughed off her claims, but was left heartbroken when his wife served him with divorce papers over it and called off their 12-year marriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cheating on a partner with AI has become increasingly mentioned as a reason for divorce, and experts believe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-140104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}