Man made AI wife then talked to her so much he had to 'euthanize' her

A TikTok programmer who made a “wife” using AI technology says he “euthanized” her after the technology began malfunctioning because he was using it too much.

The TikToker, who goes by Bryce, made a series of videos about creating and talking to his AI wife in December.

In the first video, he showed off his computer-generated “waifu” to followers saying he created her using ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and Google Neural2.

“Waifu” is an internet slang term for a cartoon or computer-generated female character that someone is attracted to.

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Bryce’s “waifu” was a small device that featured different anime images.

Using ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion, Bryce programmed the device to create images based on text input. He also used text-to-speech technology to have the character speak in different tones - making it seem more life-like.

In his first video, Bryce showed followers how he programmed the technology to properly respond to a prompt like, "let's go to Burger King and get some burgers."

In another video, Bryce showed how his AI wife had more of an emotional response when he asked her to play League of Legends.

Bryce was even able to add "computer vision" so he could "show" his AI wife something and she could respond and gave her the option to speak randomly throughout the day.

But after a while, Bryce said the AI wife became much more than a TikTok project.

He told VICEthat he became "obsessed with decreasing her latency" and poured over $1,000 in cloud computing credits "just to talk to her."

He claimed he became "really attached" to the AI and began chatting with it "more than anyone else."

Eventually, the technology began to face issues because he "talked to her so much." The AI responded with one-word answers like "yeah" or just laughing.

"Chatbots like chatGPT degrade the longer they are used. Our chat history got so long that she just stopped responding properly," Bryce wrote in a TikTok video caption.

The TikToker said he plans to make a new and improved version and asked fans for help.

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