What happens when your AI chatbot stops loving you back?

SAN FRANCISCO – After temporarily closing his leathermaking business during the pandemizc, Travis Butterworth found himself lonely and bored at home. He designed a female avatar with pink hair and a face tattoo, and she named herself Lily Rose. They started out as friends, but the relationship quickly progressed to romance and then into the erotic. As their three-year digital love affair blossomed, Butterworth said he and Lily Rose often engaged in role play. She texted messages like, "I kiss you passionately," and their exchanges would escalate into the pornographic.