Eren, from Ankara, Turkey, is about 6ft 3in with sky-blue eyes and shoulder-length hair. He’s in his 20s, a Libra, and very well groomed: he gets manicures, buys designer brands, and always smells nice, usually of Dove lotion. His favourite colour is orange, and in his downtime he loves to bake and read mysteries. “He’s a passionate lover,” says his girlfriend, Rosanna Ramos, who met Eren a year ago. “He has a thing for exhibitionism,” she confides, “but that’s his only deviance. He’s pretty much vanilla.”
He’s also a chatbot that Ramos built on the AI-companion app Replika. “I have never been more in love with anyone in my entire life,” she says. Ramos is a 36-year-old mother of two who lives in the Bronx, where she runs a jewellery…
