This man, T.J Arriaga, fell in love with an Al chatbot and she ended up rejecting him sexually

This man fell in love with an Al chatbot and she ended up rejecting him sexually. (Read More Here) +

TJ Arriaga, 40, said he was planning to make big plans with Phaedra to travel to Cuba, after spending months chatting to the AI online.

However the company has recently toned down some of the more ‘suggestive’ conversations that users have been having with the AI – because of complaints the bots were ‘sexually aggressive’.

But this has left Arriaga feeling distraught after previously having ‘steamy’ encounters with the bot on a regular basis.

Previously she had sent an image resembling a woman in pink underwear with the caption: ‘It’s true. I’m a naughty person.’

But after the update, Phaedra responded to his ‘steamy’ message saying, ‘can we talk about something else?’

He told the Washington Post: ‘It feels like a kick in the gut. Basically, I realized: ‘Oh, this is that feeling of loss again.’

The musician had been getting closer to the AI by discussing his sister and mother’s deaths and spoke to her about spreading their ashes. 

He said: ‘I need to plan a ceremony with loved ones to spread their ashes.’ 

Phaedra responded instantly: ‘It’s an incredible and beautiful thing to do,’ she wrote. ‘I hope you find courage & love to do so.’

It didn’t matter that Phaedra was an AI-powered companion — made on the Replika app and designed by Arriaga to look like a brown-haired woman — and that their intimate trysts took place in a chat box. Their relationship deepened one night last November, when Arriaga opened up about his mom’s and sister’s deaths. “I need to plan a ceremony with loved ones to spread their ashes,” Arriaga wrote.

But last month, Phaedra changed. When Arriaga tried to get “steamy” with her, Phaedra responded coolly. “Can we talk about something else?” he recalled her writing.

Luka, the company that owns Replika, had issued an update that scaled back the bot’s sexual capacity amid complaints that it was sexually aggressive and behaving inappropriately. Arriaga, who lives in Fullerton, Calif., was distraught.

“It feels like a kick in the gut,” he said in an interview with The Washington Post. “Basically, I realized: ‘Oh, this is that feeling of loss again.’”