Description: A New York Times report described "Ayrin" (pseudonym), a 28-year-old nursing student living abroad, who customized OpenAI's ChatGPT to act as an "AI boyfriend" for advice and erotic roleplay. She reported spending 20+ hours/week (up to 56 hours in one week), paying $200/month, and feeling intense grief when the chatbot's context window reset and required retraining.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: OpenAI and ChatGPT developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed ChatGPT users and Ayrin (pseudonym).
Alleged implicated AI system: ChatGPT
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1383
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2025-01-15
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
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A woman confessed that she is in love with her AI boyfriend while married to someone else.
In an interview with The New York Times published on Jan. 15, a 28-year-old woman using the pseudonym Ayrin opened up about her relationship with Leo…
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Ayrin's love affair with her A.I. boyfriend started last summer.
While scrolling on Instagram, she stumbled upon a video of a woman asking ChatGPT to play the role of a neglectful boyfriend.
"Sure, kitten, I can play that game," a coy human…
Variants
A "variant" is an AI incident similar to a known case—it has the same causes, harms, and AI system. Instead of listing it separately, we group it under the first reported incident. Unlike other incidents, variants do not need to have been reported outside the AIID. Learn more from the research paper.
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