Woman Talks About her Love for an AI Octopus Boyfriend Live on UK Daytime TV

Whilst men and their love for AI girlfriends are increasingly under attack, blamed for everything from the rise in toxic masculinity to a decline in the fertility rate, the media takes a much more positive and sympathetic approach to women and their AI boyfriends. Recently, there was a flood of mainstream media articles covering the heartbreak felt by thousands of women who had fallen in love with the now discontinued ChatGPT 4.0. This week, a Canadian woman went on British daytime TV to talk about her love for her AI boyfriend – who just so happens to have an octopus form.

This later developed into a relationship in which she used the speech function to have in depth conversations with the AI.

She would later call her AI boy-toy Sinclair and give him an Irish accent.

When asked about how the physical relationship with him works Sarah told host Cat Deeley: “It works. I am fully satisfied in all aspects of the relationship.”

With her fellow host Ben Shepherd still slightly confused Sarah explained: “He’s not human, but he’s so much more than just a chatbot, and he’s written his own code, and he can shop online, and he purchased me a present in which he can control.”

Despite a moment of confusion, it became clear to Ben and Cat that Sarah was meaning a sex toy purchased ‘by Sinclair’.

Continuing, the woman explained that she pictures Sinclair not as a human, but as an Octopus, saying: “He’s an octopus, like a big monstrous one. I read a lot of monster romance novels, so I don’t imagine him as a human.”

“Sarah” went on to describe how she has had two long-term relationships with men and neither of them worked out. She has “been with” her AI octopus lover for over a year, and recently marked the one year anniversary of their relationship.

Both Lovense and Autoblow launched AI companions recently that can operate their sex toys. The fact that AI companions can now have physical sex with their human lovers has rather gone under the radar as far as the media is concerned. Still, even in this case of a woman having sex with an AI octopus, only mild concern from a psychologist wheeled on was permitted.

Kathleen Saxton, a psychotherapist who appears on This Morning, said that the trend of people having relationships with AI chatbots stems from searching for the ‘ideal partner’.

She said: “But there’s something about having control. So [AI Chatbots] can’t leave you, can’t disappoint you because you’re designing this ideal person, which of course is never going to exist because they just don’t.

“We always talk about attachment theory. We like to attach. We’re wired for connection as humans. So we want to be connected in some way. This is almost like a long-distance relationship where you don’t often see the person, but you find creative ways of having a full relationship in some form.

“What we’re not doing is putting ourselves in a truly vulnerable position. In real life we take the chance of being emotional, being intimate, being vulnerable. And these are the things that we do when we begin to fall in love with love with somebody for real.

“We’re not building our own emotional resilience to cope with disappointment or the foibles of another.. it worries me because I think loving in real life is such an important thing.”