AI "relationships"

Cheating, no.

But too f-ing weird for me? Yes.

I'd assume some sort of mental health issue.

A voice of sense and wisdom.

Wasn't there a story in the press recently about an AI friend who was advising a child to kill themselves and a woman who died from her Diabetes because her AI friend told her to change her med dose?

I would regard it exactly the same as if they were sexting some random the other side of the country they were never likely to meet. The same as cam girls etc or Onlyfans.

It's still all cheating.

Putting emotional, sexual energy, money or invested time into anyone else whether real or AI is cheating in my book.

Posters who don't think it is are missing the reality behind the red herring of the fact it's virtual.
It's all getting kicks away from the relationship and blurring the lines of reality.

I think that’s only in apps for women who are into ‘dark romance’ novels where that’s the fantasy. I get adverts for them sometimes on Instagram but there are also ads for ones where it all appears to be very lovey-dovey and soppy and the characters aren’t controlling loons.

Both ads make me cringe just as much to be honest; I must have blocked about a dozen now.

What on earth are you on about? I’m not giving anyone ‘advice’. Where have I advised anyone? I answered the OP’s initial question. She didn’t ask for advice or mention her spouse. She simply asking for people’s thoughts on a hypothetical situation. She literally says “this is hypothetical by the way” in her post.

The OP’s question was presented as a theoretical “What would you think if…’ conversation. She didn’t suggest that she is in this situation, and neither did she ask what anyone should do if they are. She simply asked what others think about it, so I replied and expressed my own thoughts as requested.

My advice to anyone in this situation would be to do whatever feels right for them, because clearly it’s completely personal and everyone has their own feelings on the matter and only they know what their own boundaries are and what they are comfortable with. But advice wasn’t what the OP asked for and advice wasn’t what I gave.

You really are massively overreacting and being quite melodramatic in response to me merely expressing my own personal feelings on an entirely theoretical scenario.

You also appear to have imagined a spouse for the OP and offered her direct advice on a situation she very specifically said isn’t a situation that exists for her and is simply a hypothetical scenario she posed as a conversation starter.

Spot the troll or the visitor from Reddit - @TheLastSilverSaint

Don't listen to the bonkers, crap advice from the above poster.

Although people can get pretty invested in book and film characters, A.I is different, given the interactive nature of it and its ability to respond and collect data on someone.

Your spouse is unfulfilled, and rather than deal with that, they've decided to try and plug it via this route. Be careful, because on a logical level they may know it's A.I, but on an emotional level, they could get worryingly invested.

I wouldn't be in a relationship with someone who does that. Not because it's cheating but because I think the blurring of real human connections with computers is fucking weird and scary and a bit sad, and I don't want to spend time with people who think that's normal.

Absolutely this

… off to look up how to do this! It sounds good for people like me who are straight but have been put off men for life!

Have you seen the internet ads that pop up for an AI boyfriend? They are seriously disturbing..

No thank you.

The horror movie to follow is writing itself...the AI girlfriend is jealous of the real life wife, so decides to do her in by controlling electronic functions around the house...she ends up killing them both and moves on to her next "boyfriend"...rinse and repeat until she meets her match in the movie star heroine...who saves her husband and the next victims...

Not cheating but unbelievably pathetic

Id end it not because I think its cheating.. but treating it like it real and having an emotional attachment to it would be too strange to tolerate.

It would seem childish to me. Ick territory.

This! Wouldn’t class it as cheating but pathetic!

Any sexless relationship would bother me, but it wouldn’t be made any worse just because they happened to pick AI as their alternative. It wouldn’t be any worse to me than someone having a sexless relationship because they’re wanking to their own imagination all the time.

Cheating and unhinged. Deal breakers.

Ive seen a few docs on this sort of thing.
its not cheating i dont think it is.
But if it helps them let them be, the way the world is i dont blame men or women choosing it tbh.

https://www.businessinsider.com/sexually-aggressive-chatbot-updated-people-in-love-wiht-it-heartbroken-2023-3?r=US&IR=T

https://ifstudies.org/blog/counterfeit-connections-the-rise-of-ai-romantic-companions-

"These generative AI systems have typically been taught to be emotionally validating, caring, and always interested in what the user has to say, and, in many cases, to be overtly sexual. Many platforms intermix chat-based conversations with life-like, realistic, and sometimes sexually-explicit AI generated images for the fictional avatar. Many of these platforms allow individuals to “program” their ideal partners, creating idealized companions in terms of both facial features, body shape, dress and appearance, and personality traits. In some cases, users are allowed to generate images for their AI companion with body proportions that are unrealistic or depict an artistic style, such as anime."

Fantasy masturbation? To me, that sounds so bizarre. How does that conversation go? I dread to think. I assume these are actual specific ais rather than asking ChatGPT for a date.