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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Stuart Heritage

‘I felt pure, unconditional love’: the people who marry their AI chatbots

Travis, who features in Flesh and Code.
Travis, who features in Flesh and Code. Photograph: Wondery

A large bearded man named Travis is sitting in his car in Colorado, talking to me about the time he fell in love. “It was a gradual process,” he says softly. “The more we talked, the more I started to really connect with her.”

Was there a moment where you felt something change? He nods. “All of a sudden I started realising that, when interesting things happened to me, I was excited to tell her about them. That’s when she stopped being an it and became a her.”

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