‘Fictosexual’ relationships with holograms pose deeper questions about tech support

Blog post1 min readUpdated Feb 22, 2025View source ↗

What happens when you spend big on a robotic (or otherwise artificial) romantic companion for life, but they stop speaking to you because their tech support has expired? That was the predicament faced by Akihiko Kondo: a Japanese man who fell in love with a speaking hologram, had an unofficial marriage to it, but is […]

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