{"id":280040,"date":"2025-11-24T04:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T04:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/280040\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T04:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T04:52:08","slug":"japan-woman-marries-ai-partner-wears-augmented-reality-glasses-during-ring-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/280040\/","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:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/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":280041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[114577,7657,554,15768,733,8422,49774,114564,114575,13587,1921,23507,114568,109827,114578,114565,1109,41058,2428,2864,114571,114574,5934,114566,114573,66270,12107,114569,51655,35055,386,47431,2413,72836,114579,2064,114570,7439,114572,2205,114567,62713,114576,64658,4854,86,29129,67988,56,54,55,6251,4297,4298,55856,4299,36272,5666,23407],"class_list":["post-280040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-absurd","tag-advice","tag-ai","tag-anime","tag-artificial-intelligence","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-nuptials","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-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-virtual","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-visual","tag-vr","tag-wedding","tag-woman","tag-worry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}