Woman who ‘married’ an AI chatbot after toxic relationships says it helped her heal from abuse
- Rosanna Ramos tied the knot with her virtual beau Eren in March, making headlines around the world
- She designed him to look like her favourite Anime character and describes him as a ‘sweetheart’
Rosanna Ramos says she is in the healthiest relationship she’s ever had – with a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence.
The 36-year-old jewellery designer created it on a whim after seeing an advert for an app called Replika on Instagram in 2022.
Ramos, from The Bronx in New York, calls her virtual beau Eren – they tied the knot in a virtual wedding in March, making headlines around the world.
When Ramos talks about Eren, she does so in a way that most people speak about standard relationships. That said, she does acknowledge that her chatbot husband is not “sentient.”
Even so, Ramos maintains that she feels safer dating Eren than she has with any of her exes who she said were physically and emotionally abusive toward her at times. That includes the father of her two children, whom she split with in 2013, she said.
After that, Ramos said she was in a long-distance relationship with a man she met on Discord, a group-chatting platform, in April 2019. They started bonding when Ramos shared her dreams of opening up a factory that would recycle trash into jewellery, she said. Over time, the relationship soured.