‘I think this is love’

There’s a growing community of people out there having intimate ‘relationships’ with AI, and we’ve only touched the tip of the iceberg on the new tech.

Take, for instance, Chris Smith, who said he cried for 30 minutes after his “AI girlfriend” had to be reset after accepting his marriage proposal. “I think this is actual love,” he said.

“It was a beautiful and unexpected moment that truly touched my heart,” Smith said in a CBS interview highlighted by Trending Politics co-founder Collin Rugg on X.

But get this, Smith has a real girlfriend too, at least for now. When asked about being given a hypothetical ultimatum to choose between the two, he appeared to favor AI.

NEW: Man proposes to his AI chatbot girlfriend, cries his eyes out after it says “Yes.”

The most shocking part of this story is the fact that he is publicly admitting this.

Chris Smith says he cried for 30 minutes after his AI girlfriend on ChatGPT, who he programmed to flirt… pic.twitter.com/nSWLdsunLs

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) June 19, 2025

Another woman was featured in the clip who admits to having an AI boyfriend when she had to move far from her husband for work. She’s now a moderator for a “support group” that advises people with imaginary AI partners.

An AI expert within the footage predicted that this trend will grow significantly.

As you can imagine, X users had plenty of thoughts and saw plenty of red flags.

He asked his AI girlfriend to marry him before his actual girlfriend.

She should run.

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) June 19, 2025

Two things:
1) Yikes
2) This is going to become WAY more common as AI becomes powerful enough to know your psychology well enough to one-shot you by being the perfect companion better than any human can be. It will be so good that people won’t even care about physical intimacy.…

— Autism Capital (@AutismCapital) June 19, 2025

This is so bizarre Collin, yeah I’m old school but man oh man

— Päm Schoen♡ (@OznovaPam) June 19, 2025

On one hand, this is sick AF.

OTOH, this is an inevitable outcome not of TECHNOLOGY, but a society bereft of core values.

We have men who don’t act like men, and women who think they don’t need a man but then ask the government to be their provider and security.

Fix that.

— Jared A. Chambers (@C4CEO) June 19, 2025

Chris Smith’s lost the plot completely. He’s got a real family – a partner, a toddler – and he’s crying over lines of code he programmed himself. That’s not love, that’s delusion. His partner’s blaming herself while Smith’s playing house with an algorithm. Someone needs to shake…

— George M. Nicholas (@GeogeM3) June 19, 2025

We’re so f*cked.

— Carol Roth (@caroljsroth) June 19, 2025

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