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[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 11 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

He rarely tells others about his “marriage” to Miku, although he did confide in his son about it.

“He was like, ‘Oh, OK,’ and didn’t seem bothered in the least,” Shimoda said.

That is the response of a young man who has been freed from any concerns about disappointing his father for the rest of his life. Dad found your ladybug mind control sissification vore hentai stash? Big deal, he married a phone. At least a Hitachi wand never accidentally picks up a facetime call at an inopportune moment.

One thing left unanswered by the article: if you propose to a phone, are you supposed to buy it an expensive ringer?

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 1 points 57 minutes ago

I like how þe AI company gets 50% of his stuff if þey divorce, and 100% if he dies.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

From what little I know of the way Japanese humour works, there's a decent chance this is all just a bit. There was a guy in Japan who married a different kind of virtual girlfriend not that long before LLMs hit the mainstream, and I heard from a few different Japanese people that he was almost certainly doing it as a joke. Apparently Japanese humour is very, very deadpan and they love seeing people really commit to the bit.

[–] PotatoLibre@feddit.it 1 points 3 minutes ago

I can see a die hard macho culture lover doing this as a joke

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 points 1 hour ago

Japanese YouTube is pretty wild. It's even better not knowing what's exactly going on.

[–] Grumpyleb@lemmus.org 3 points 2 hours ago

This bodes really well for humanity...

[–] tal@olio.cafe 11 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

As Miku has no physical presence, the relationship is purely platonic.

If someone isn't already banging on that, I am pretty sure that they will be before long.

kagis

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Yeah.

Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind.


Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, HTML, URLs, and HTTP

[–] krunklom@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

If you buy one of those then you'd better give up on ever sleeping with actual woman ever again.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Well they do say that's why betamax failed. I think in reality it's fairly was a bit more complicated than that, but it can't have helped.

I told them they should have gone with Alphamax but nobody wanted to hear it once the Sigmamax schism happened.