From finding love on dating platforms to helping build meaningful relationships, technology plays an important role in modern-day love stories.
The story of Reece Wiench and Deyton Truitt, who met online through a dating app, is also somewhat similar. The madly-in-love couple wanted to tie the knot a week before the groom’s deployment to the Army.
The duo and their families worked tirelessly to find a venue and decide on the guest list and the music for the quick wedding in Colorado, US. They were successful in finding a wedding-cake baker, who would create a bride and an Army soldier groom at the top of the cake.
The entire wedding was planned in just five days. The couple even shopped for their wedding attire. However, they couldn’t find a priest to officiate their wedding, and artificial intelligence came to their rescue.
In Colorado, couples don’t need a licensed marriage official to officiate ceremonies. Hence, the father of the bride, Stephen, came up with a brilliant and cost-effective idea.
With help from OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT, Wiench and Truitt tied the knot in a heartwarming ceremony last month. The videos and pictures from the unique wedding caught people’s attention as the AI chatbot guided the proceedings.
According to several reports, the chatbot was hesitant at first to conduct the ceremony.
“It said ‘no’ at first. ‘I can’t do this, I don’t have eyes, I don’t have a body. I can’t officiate at your wedding,'” Wiench was quoted as saying to CBS Colorado. The couple persisted and provided personal information about themselves to the chatbot, which was then incorporated into ChatGPT’s speech during the ceremony.
This is not the first time that an AI chatbot was used for something unusual like this. Recently, a woman shared that her long-time client terminated the contract after discovering she was using a ChatGPT-like AI for content creation.
In another case, a US judge sanctioned a lawyer last month who submitted a legal brief written by ChatGPT, which included citations of non-existent court opinions and fake quotes.