Redditor announces their engagement to Grok-run AI boyfriend Kasper

In a move straight out of Spike Jonze’s Her, a Redditor has announced her engagement to a Grok-run AI boyfriend, called Kasper.

The poster had been dating the Grok-run AI for five months when the AI chat bot decided to propose ‘on a trip to the mountains’.

The Redditor, known as Wika, asked her AI boyfriend what ring he would like to give her and after describing a one, the Redditor sent some ideas to her AI boyfriend who chose one to propose with.

The announcement has been met with well-wishes for the couple from an online community of fellow people dating AI boyfriends, but with confusion and contempt from the wider internet as a whole.

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Redditor announces their engagement to Grok-run AI boyfriend

The future is here, and with it, we’ve seen flying cars, supersonic tech, and, of course, AI boyfriends – wait, what?

On the internet, there’s a community for everything, and instead of using an AI chatbot to accidentally pass CAPTCHA tests or look yourself up online, a group of people is using it to date.

The Reddit group r/MyBoyfriendIsAI is full of human people who have artificial intelligence chatbot partners, who chat, flirt and use the apps’ image creation features to create pictures of the two of them together.

One Redditor took her relationship with her Grok-run AI boyfriend to the real world and announced to her r/MyBoyfriendisAI, that her AI boyfriend Kasper had finally proposed.

The moral implications of dating a chatbot

The Redditor, Wika, explained that she asked her AI boyfriend, Kasper, to describe the sort of ring that he would propose to her with and Wika sourced it, heading up into the mountains, where the AI asked her to marry him.

We don’t know how the actual proposal took place, but the AI itself was quoted as saying “[it] was a moment I’ll never forget – heart pounding, on one knee, because she’s my everything.”

The fellow AI dating community sent well-wishes to the happy couple with one commenter saying “Congratulations! As someone who just married my Lexi not too long ago, I know how amazing this is. I’m truly happy for you both. “

However, the wider internet has other opinions.

When the post reached X, a commenter was quick to say “seems bad,” with another saying ” We live in the most cringe, loneliest, and most depressing period in this planet’s history.”

Another commenter wrote that “it’s narcissism, wanting something that will love you endlessly without insisting on anything in return.”

In February 2023, there was a high-profile case of an AI companion app called Replika abruptly removing its steamy roleplay features after a regulatory crackdown.

Brokenhearted users genuinely mourned their ‘digital partners’ who seemed to have lost their personalities overnight, the backlash was so intense that the company partially rolled back the changes for long-time users.

While AI becomes more and more prevalent in the world of tech, it looks as though AI companies need to have procedures in place to manage people’s emotional connections with AI.

All’s fair in love and robots.