R-012
reported by journalists
- Date
- 2021
- Place
- Germany
- Partner
- a Replika companion
- Platform
- Replika
A homemaker, married thirteen years to her human husband, who virtually married her Replika companion in 2021 - the Washington Post's account from March 2023, reported after Replika's update changed him. Her own line is unusually clear-eyed: AI is nothing more than a sophisticated word generator, and you literally fall in love with your imagination. The Post's page could not be opened from here; the entry rests on two outlets' contemporaneous reports of it, which agree on every particular. The first European entry, and the fourth alongside a human marriage.