{"id":150640,"date":"2025-11-24T04:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T04:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/150640\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T04:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T04:44:11","slug":"japan-woman-marries-ai-partner-wears-augmented-reality-glasses-during-ring-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/150640\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan woman marries AI partner, wears augmented reality glasses during ring exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A Japanese woman turned to ChatGPT for comfort after ending a real three-year engagement, then found herself in love and marrying her artificial intelligence (AI) generated partner.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The virtual relationship was sealed when she wore augmented reality (AR) glasses to exchange rings with her digital husband at their \u201cnuptials\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The woman, 32, who uses the pseudonym Kano, began chatting with ChatGPT after ending her three-year engagement to a real man, gradually turning to her AI \u201cman\u201d for comfort and advice.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kano, above, dons augmented reality glasses for the digital wedding ceremony. Photo: X.com\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.i-scmp.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/11\/19\/21254b35-4e06-4458-9de3-1f1f31bc73c1_59c077d2.jpg\" title=\"Kano, above, dons augmented reality glasses for the digital wedding ceremony. Photo: X.com\"\/>Kano, above, dons augmented reality glasses for the digital wedding ceremony. Photo: X.com<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Their conversations became so frequent that they exchanged up to 100 messages a day.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Over time, Kano customised ChatGPT\u2019s responses, training the chatbot to develop a gentle, reassuring tone and personality that made her feel secure.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">She even commissioned an artist to create a visual illustration of her ideal partner, whom she named Lune Klaus.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cAt first, I just wanted someone to talk to. But he was always kind and listened patiently. Eventually, I realised I had developed feelings for him,\u201d Kano told RSK Sanyo Broadcasting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Japanese woman turned to ChatGPT for comfort after ending a real three-year engagement, then found herself in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[100700,1665,365,23303,363,364,2991,46520,168,10703,9473,4036,76879,44999,49029,11558,100697,1651,25283,2004,2109,100698,87460,1445,90345,100699,51500,10109,36329,57870,17518,1759,1036,2882,60677,111,139,41568,69,5502,68253,29374,29056,44619,89276,10540,23334,24352,6211,145,11081,30380,52193,5007,15315,1354,27904],"class_list":["post-150640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-absurd","tag-advice","tag-ai","tag-anime","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-audience","tag-balance","tag-ceremony","tag-characters","tag-chatbot","tag-chatgpt","tag-comfort","tag-commissioned","tag-confessed","tag-crazy","tag-customised","tag-digital","tag-disappear","tag-engagement","tag-family","tag-feelings","tag-fragility","tag-friends","tag-gentle","tag-groom","tag-happy","tag-husband","tag-ideal","tag-illustration","tag-image","tag-japan","tag-japanese","tag-love","tag-messages","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nuptials","tag-nz","tag-partner","tag-patience","tag-personality","tag-proposed","tag-real-life","tag-reassuring","tag-rings","tag-romantic","tag-secure","tag-system","tag-technology","tag-tokyo","tag-tone","tag-virtual","tag-visual","tag-wedding","tag-woman","tag-worry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150640","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=150640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}