💘 "Cheating" With Chatbots is Already Destroying Marriages

Courts are increasingly getting divorce cases due to "affairs" with AI companions, lawyers from the US and UK told Wired magazine.

According to surveys, more than 64% of people consider sexting with chatbots to be full-blown cheating. Women are less tolerant: 71% of them think romance with AI is adultery, compared to 58% of men.

💰 AI girlfriends often take real money from the family budget. On Reddit, one woman recently complained her husband spent thousands of dollars communicating with an AI-generated "sexy Latina baby girl." The couple divorced after 14 years of marriage.

😊 There is currently no uniform legislation regulating relationships with AI. In California, a proposal is under consideration to treat AI as a "third party" (i.e., a full participant in the conflict) in court. In Ohio, by contrast, there are plans to assign AI the status of a "nonsentient entity," denied the right to legal personhood.

In practice, lawyers warn that those caught in a "romantic relationship" with AI companions should not expect favorable decisions.

"It is conceivable and likely that they would question the parents' judgment because they're having intimate discussions with a chatbot, which brings into question how they are spending time with their child," explains divorce lawyer Rebecca Palmer.

Is sexting with a bot cheating?

💔 — Of course, divorce immediately!
🗿 — No, it's not serious!

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