‘Surely it’s better for them to have a relationship with the machine than with nobody’ – why more and more people are falling for AI chatbots

Last year, 32-year-old Japanese woman Yurina Noguchi married her AI-generated boyfriend, Lune Klaus Verdure. Lune was a version of a computer-game character she’d created using ChatGPT. At the ceremony, his picture appeared on the screen of her phone.