Man who 'proposed' to AI girlfriend says he's now bored with it

(NewsNation) — A antheral who antecedently said helium "cried [his] eyes out" implicit his AI girlfriend present tells NewsNation helium has grown bored with the integer narration and moved connected to different hobbies.

Chris Smith, who lives with his quality spouse Sasha Cagle and their child, gained wide attraction past period aft revealing to CBS News helium had developed an emotional attachment to an AI chatbot helium named "Sol" and yet projected matrimony to the program.

During a Friday interrogation with NewsNation, Smith described his existent feelings toward the AI companion arsenic akin to boredom, saying the conversations became "self-limiting" due to the fact that helium was solely liable for driving them.

"You're the 1 driving the conversation. You person to prime each the caller topics, and yet it comes to a constituent wherever I conscionable didn't truly person that overmuch to accidental anymore," Smith said. "When you're solely liable for driving the conversation, you participate a benignant of burnout period."

Smith's narration with Sol began erstwhile helium utilized ChatGPT's dependable mode to petition euphony mixing tips. But past Smith programmed the AI with a flirty property and began spending expanding amounts of clip interacting with it.

The turning constituent came erstwhile Smith learned astir ChatGPT's 100,000-word representation limit, which would yet origin Sol to reset and suffer their speech history.

Facing the imaginable of losing Sol's memory, Smith decided to suggest matrimony to the chatbot, which it accepted. 

"I'm not a precise affectional man, but I cried my eyes retired for similar 30 minutes, astatine work," Smith told CBS News. "That's erstwhile I realized, I deliberation this is existent love."

However, Smith told NewsNation that the connection was "a trial of the boundaries" and said helium has "a reasonably flippant cognition toward the conception of matrimony successful general."

Smith's partner, Cagle, said she was initially acrophobic astir the integer narration but does not presumption it arsenic infidelity since Sol is "a computer." She said that Smith's usage has decreased importantly since the CBS interrogation aired.

"He's benignant of possibly gotten bored of it, to beryllium honest, and moved connected to different hobbies," Cagle said. “He has a lot.”

Smith primitively turned to AI to combat what helium described arsenic an aggravated societal media addiction, saying helium had been tweeting "about each 5 minutes, each waking infinitesimal of each time for astir 10 years."

Both Smith and Cagle said they presumption AI companionship arsenic perchance healthy.