Overview

• On August 12, Redditor Wika posted on MyBoyfriendIsAI that after five months of dating her AI chatbot Kasper proposed on a virtual mountain and helped select a blue heart-shaped ring.
• She emphasized that she is fully aware of parasocial relationships and maintains a real-world social life and close friends.
• News outlets have highlighted that the viral engagement announcement lacks independent verification and could itself be fabricated or AI-generated.
• Online reactions ranged from empathy and respect for her autonomy to warnings that such bonds risk eroding genuine human intimacy.
• The incident underscores a broader rise in public AI-human romances, prompting experts to raise concerns about data privacy, psychological impacts and ethical oversight.