Your wedding is meant to be one of the most important days in your life, and your vows are supposed to be the crowning jewel that makes the entire celebration of love shine. The problem is that writing vows is, well, incredibly difficult. Many people struggle to pen exactly how much they love their soulmate. But it’s through that struggle that you show your genuine feelings.
However, one groom had a different idea. He went viral all over the internet after he revealed how he used ChatGPT to write his vows. However, his bride instantly picked up on it and walked out. The distraught and confused man then turned to the internet for some advice, and people didn’t hold back.
Read on for the full story, in two parts. Meanwhile, Bored Panda has reached out to the author for comment, and we’ll update the article as soon as we hear back from him.
Your wedding vows are meant to be incredibly personal. After all, nobody knows why you love your soulmate better than you
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One groom watched his entire relationship implode when the bride instantly figured out that he used ChatGPT to ‘write’ his vows
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Using AI for something as sensitive as your wedding vows might make your partner feel like you don’t respect them enough to try your best
From your truly’s subjective perspective, using a chatbot to write anything emotional, sensitive, or impactful, especially your wedding vows, is a huge mistake.
No shade, but situations like this one are where you need to let your humanity and empathy shine through. And that means putting in the time, energy, sweat, and years to write (then edit, trash, rewrite, throw out, and yet again rewrite) your vows.
Writing is meant to be a struggle. It’s through this struggle that you understand your own feelings, actively think about your relationship with new and old ideas, and develop your worldview. It’s also how you connect with the world around you… and with your partner!
To put it bluntly, writing forces you to think. Meanwhile, when you outsource your creativity to a large language model (LLM), you’re allowing your mind to atrophy because you’re setting your critical thinking and emotions aside.
That’s on top of the fact that many people will feel disrespected when they realize you’re not putting in the effort to communicate with them. Why should they bother reading or listening to something that a person didn’t think was worth the effort to create themselves?
Using chatbot-generated text is incredibly impersonal because of how generic these tools are. And, to be clear, it’s most often very obvious when someone has outsourced their creativity to ChatGPT. You might not think it is, but it is.
And if we learned that anyone we knew was using a chatbot to write their wedding vows, we’d be seriously concerned. If they’re good friends of ours, we’d pull them aside before the Big Day and explain to them why it’s a mistake. Your vows, even if ‘imperfect,’ are still worth more when they’re written authentically by you.
Chatbots are absolutely awful for your critical thinking and learning skills
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As reported by Time magazine, based on recent research by MIT’s Media Lab, using LLMs can harm learning, development, and critical thinking abilities, especially in the case of younger users.
According to the study, where subjects were asked to write essays using ChatGPT, Google, or nothing at all, chatbot users had the lowest brain engagement. They “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.”
As the study went on, over the next several months, ChaGPT users got lazier and lazier, putting in less effort with each new essay. By the end of the study, they often just copied and pasted AI-generated text.
“From a psychiatric standpoint, I see that overreliance on these LLMs can have unintended psychological and cognitive consequences, especially for young people whose brains are still developing. These neural connections that help you in accessing information, the memory of facts, and the ability to be resilient: all that is going to weaken,” psychiatrist Dr. Zishan Khan told Time.
To be clear, it’s natural to get writer’s block when you’re writing something incredibly impactful. You want to leave a positive impression on your significant other, your family, your friends, and all the people you love. And nobody wants to make a fool of themselves in front of crowd of people whose respect they want.
Your vows should focus on your unique understanding of your soulmate, but they don’t have to be ‘perfect’
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According to The Knot, you should try not to let the entire situation stress you out too much. You’re not supposed to summarize your entire relationship in your vows!
“The most essential vow is your commitment to the marriage, which is covered with your ‘I do.’ Your marriage will change so much over the years, and you can renew and even change them in the future. It’s not a concrete summary of your relationship; it’s the beginning of a promise that is alive and will grow as you do,” coach and officiant Maureen Cotton, from The Soulful Wedding, explained to The Knot.
You ought to make things very personal and go deeper than the officiant, your family, and friends will be able to when talking about your relationship.
“What is one thing that only you can say to your beloved? Answer that and you’ll have unique vows from the heart,” Cotton suggests.
What do you think, dear Pandas? What’s your take on the sensitive situation? Do you think the groom was wrong to use AI to write his vows, or do you think the bride overreacted? Would you ever write your wedding vows with ChatGPT? How do you think your partner would react to that? What’s the worst thing you’ve witnessed at someone’s Big Day? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
Most readers disagreed with the man. Here’s their perspective on the wedding drama
However, a handful of people actually had the groom’s back. Here’s their take
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Later, the man shared an update about how he tried to fix his relationship
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Here’s what internet users had to say after reading the follow-up to the saga
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People I know seem to find it puzzling that I'm as rabidly anti-AI as I am. Well, it's not just because of the horrible ethical and environmental violations. It's because I'm autistic. All my life I've had to put up with people, including close family, treating me like I can't do things. In other words, infantilising me. Nothing sets me off harder than being treated like I'm too stupid and helpless to get things done, and now it's escalated to "oh why don't you just used ChaptGPT to write that for you!". I AM A 20 YEAR VETERAN PUBLISHED AUTHOR WITH MULTIPLE DEGREES. Why the everloving fucksticks would I EVER need a f*****g robot to write for me? So it goes without saying that seeing people voluntarily infantilise themselves like this to the point of thinking the most human emotions of all can be handed over to the machine makes me want to go on a k i l l i n g spree. This loser can go marry f*****g ChatGPT if he loves it that much.
I'm also rabidly anti-AI. We're going to forget how to do things for ourselves. I used to do graphic design stuff on the side, but now people just tell chatgpt or whatever what they want made. Do people really need help writing a freaking email?? Or, in this case, words from the heart??? It's disgusting. And hardly environmentally friendly.
Load More Replies...1/2: I know I'll get downvoted into oblivion here but I honestly don't see what the big deal is. AI is a tool. If I love someone from a different culture and I use a dictionary/google/AI to learn what "I love you" is in their first language it doesn't mean my love isn't real because I didn't know the words. We don't even know HOW OP used AI. Maybe he told ChatGPT what he loves about her and what to include, and not just "write wedding vows". Maybe he knew he wasn't good with words and wanted the vows to be extra polished and not feel like a blubbering idiot. We just don't know. And what everyone seems to forget: the wedding is not the end goal, it's a party. The end goal is a marriage. She knew he loved her, and saw the million different things he did to show her his love over the years. The vows were one single moment that didn't invalidate the years before.
We know the wife spotted then and there that AI was used, so it wasn't subtle. (And using AI to translate texts often leads to horrible results; use at least one native from the other culture to proofread what you concocted)
Load More Replies...I’m rabidly anti-AI. And I agree that using AI to write vows was a moronic move. However, breaking up with someone over something like that can mean only one thing: it was only a trigger, the straw that broke the proverbial camel’s back. There were probably serious problems in that relationship that went much deeper than this AI thing.
Like numerous other times OP declined to put any real effort into things for her, or decided he knew better than she did what she actually wanted—-which of course, was what HE wanted instead. She rightfully decided that she wasn’t going to waste herself on a selfish oaf who only puts minimal effort into anything for her. I bet if it’s something for him, he puts more than enough effort into it, and is very precise in what he wants and how he likes it. He probably has a tantrum when it isn’t right.
Load More Replies...Sorry, buddy; given she said she didn't like AI initially and you went and did AI vows anyway, you're... well, I I'm not 100% on if I would call you an AH as such, but I would absolutely call you a muppet. Taking away the whole 'AI' thing in that one can argue it's not thoughtful, etc, *she said she didn't like it and you did it anyway*. I'm not married, but I assume it's the one day you'd want to get everything right. And for that, well. You may not have been intending to be an AH but I do think you were a DH (dickhead, not 'dear' husband') for thinking that "hey, she doesn't like AI, but it'll be okay on the wedding day!".
When my wife and i got married we had to do our entrance again because the first time our bouquets were missing and we were so nervous we didn't notice until we were standing in front of the officiant. The flower boys (my brothers) had forgot them in their cars. We all laughed about it and we did our entrance again, this time with the bouquets. Your wedding day isn't supposed to be perfect, but it's supposed to be truthful to the love you feel for eachother.
Load More Replies...AI made me believe in the human soul by showing what art looks like it without one
Pretty sure I'll be downvoted to oblivion for this. My husband is a published author. When we were planning the wedding he said his one "thing" was that we don't write our own vows. The thought of having to do that, in front of an audience too made him incredibly anxious. I would like to know if OP was given an option about writing their own vows. If he didn't feel he could voice his concerns to her, that's a worry - but is that on him? How does she usually react when he disagrees - what's the dynamic there? Either way, in our situation I totally understood, didn't want my husband to be in a position where he felt that uncomfortable, and we didn't write our own vows. And I personally think it's unfair to put him on the spot too - I wouldn't be able to articulately convey up my love for my husband spur of the moment in front of an audience. I'd like more information on the situation. However, making up for it with snacks... yeah, could've done better. Hopefully they both dodged a bullet
I agree. I know neither mine nor my husband's strong skills is putting thoughts and feelings into words. I would never put him (or me) through that.
Load More Replies...Vows shouldn't be a surprise at the altar. They should have sat down before the event and gone over the vows together. He should have been honest with her in that he didn't know where to start or how to say what he wanted to say, at least then she'd have known and worked with him. Instead he cheated on the assignment and she flunked him. Ai can be helpful in flowering up the meaning and how you want to express yourself, but don't lose yourself in it.
Yes! Something as important as a public vow should not come as a surprise to the other party. It should be agreed upon beforehand - to prevent just such situations as this.
Load More Replies...Either he didn't feel comfortable telling his partner he was struggling to write vows, or he didn't understand her. Either way, they weren't a good couple. Lots of people wouldn't care if the cows were chatgpt - I've been to five or six weddings just with standard vows or who have the officiant ask the do you take etc But obviously personal vows were really important to his ex and obviously he didn't feel he could say he was having a hard time, and that's the biggest sign to me that they weren't a good match.
Husband and I said our "I do" and then each read out a love poem. His in French by a Belgian writer, mine a sonnet by Shakespeare in English. That reflected our appreciation of literature and each other. Having some common and complementary traits, we've been able to get past such problems as hubby not adding enough milk when he serves me coffee. Yup, told him. I'll live, LOL.
Load More Replies...Maybe it's just an age thing, but since when was each partner writing their own vows a thing? A part of the rationale behind the standard wedding services used for centuries is that it's a balance, each person is making the same promises to each other (OK, at least since we got rid of "obey") , it's a sign of sharing, of how you're each saying "I'll always be there for you", as I know you will for me.
In English speaking countries there's no standard wedding ceremony that's been used for centuries. Men didn't even typically wear wedding rings until after WW2. Certainly few Christian ceremonies (which would have been the norm in English speaking places) were concerned with equity of vows. Until 1922 even the Anglican church still had women swear to obey their husbands. You acknowledge this, but shrug it off like it doesn't demonstrate the assumed inequality in a relationship. It's been common since the 50s to have your own vows, though wasn't the norm until the 70s. By mid 70s it was featured on TV, in film and in books as common place, and not as something surprising as it was in the 50/60s. So not sure how old you are, but probably not an age thing I would guess a religious thing.
Load More Replies...I think the bride's reaction is more about "the straw that broke the camel's back" than just the vows. It was, apparently, the last of a longer line of incidents that made her come to believe he wasn't the partner she hoped he was.
Wow, toxicity of the Internet on total display here. Is he an idiot? Yes. Is she overreacting? Yes. Is counseling a good idea? Yes. Are complete strangers warranted in destroying him? No. I'm ashamed of my fellow humans' judgmental attitudes. Must be nice to be perfect people...
Agreee with you, good summary! Lazy a*s + drama queen…. Promising….
Load More Replies...Vows are an agreement which both consent to. I don't understand why they didn't go over them well before standing at the altar. That's like taking out a loan but not asking about the interest rate or repayment schedule until you show up at the bank to pick up the check.
Using the internet or AI to help you fine tune something, look for big mistakes, no problem, like using spell check but if you said “ I need wedding vows for a hot blond 30 something…”
I have the opposite take. Using AI to find a starting point is fine but you want to fine tune it yourself, make it personal. But trying to distill a promise to a few sentences, I completely understand how it might be helpful to hear how others have started .
Load More Replies...1/2: While in the context of this story with the bride repeatedly expressing her hatred for AI the groom's actions are terrible, and he comes off as a guy who is insufferable, I'd say that in general using AI to help write wedding wows (as long as it was used to help polish it, not just "gimme' some wows") is not necessarily a big deal. The whole "you should make an effort", "if you loved me you would be able to find the most personal present/say the nicest wows/figure out what I'm thinking" thing can be blown out of proportion. Some people are simply NOT good with words, or presents, or showing their emotions in a way that matches the receiver's expectations. That's the same as some are good with maths, other with gardening, others are great drivers. I'm the most terrible driver in the world, and no matter how much I love someone, or practice, or put in whatever effort, I can't do it in a safe and effective way.
2/2: It's not about being lazy, it's lacking some native skill that will not suddenly show up just because "I care". Same way, some can't stand up in front of a crowd and "just speak from the heart", because the best they will come up with is "I sorta' like ya'", and that doesn't mean they don't love the other person, just that they lack certain skills to the extreme. And it can be exhausting if you're being told over and over again that you should just magically do better.
Load More Replies...Doesn't sound like they communicated a lot in general.
Load More Replies...Went back for age as thought this was written by 21/22m. 35. Duuuuude. AI was the final straw. And then you decided snacks and flowers was a fix.
You dodged a bullet. She's too dramatic/excitable. Your marriage would have been h\Hell on Earth.
Half-asses the most important part of his bride's most important day. Is victim, still.
Anyone who cares more about a wedding ring/wedding day/vows/whatever over the happiness of actually being married is obviously doing it for the wrong reasons. If you are super happy about the idea of spending your life together but over a minor detail you break off your entire relationship is totally mental.
I would call off the wedding if my partner insisted we write our own vows. That is rife for stress, heartache, embarrassment. Whoever came up with that idea is a sadist.
Couldn't he Google "what are some things to say in wedding vows" and gone from there? No, *he* had to AI the whole thing. 🤦♀️
What's the difference between googling you wedding vows and using AI?
Load More Replies...I'm glad I am not young today. If they really loved each other they would have gotten past it. He did something he thought would help him make his vows better. Always consider the intention behind the action, not just the action itself. Poor guy. He dodged a bullet. She's crazy for never talking to him again after they built a life together to the point they were ready to say I do. She was looking for an out. People use to give each other hallmark cards to say how they felt. Nobody flipped out over that. How is this so different? These people who responded as they did above are the fragile flowers that we now have ready to run our country.....Pray for us.
Traditional wedding vows have been commonly used since the 16th century. But this is not about wedding vows or AI. This is about self sabotage. Person A was well aware Person B abhorred X. Person A specifically & intentionally utilized X with Person B. It really doesn’t take an ounce of thought to see how that would be received by Person B. It was intentional & the consequences would’ve been obvious.
From back to front: When even the dragon-fodder doesn't work, and the poor guy has no idea, how and why happened the fallout. BRUH. When he has no control over how his family talks to his former bride, and has no intention to mediate. BRUH. When he simply disregarded her wish, and instead of either expressing his discomfort about the self-written wows, or actively putting into a few hours of effort by looking up others' wows, asking the officiant, search for a fitting quote in some book or whatever, he puts in a few minutes and does the only thing she despises, BRUH.
Dude dodged a bullet. She shouds complete intolerant and exhausting. So he used AI to help write something he's not good at doing. I am SURE she didn't use ANY inspiriation from things other people have written or said over the last 100 years to influence her vows. He said it herself, she's confrontational, has decided she "despises AI" for no good reason, and was looking for a fight, becuase she always is. This is what the entirety of what the short marriage would of been. She's only happy being miserable, let her be happy alone.
So she expressed her extreme dislike of AI, well beforehand and known to OP, and he chose "the most important day of their lives" to read some AI garbage to her??!!!! I'd be furious too!
Wedding vows are something personal. Even if you are as dumb as this guy appears to be one should write them themselves. Still i dont understand why she would fundamentally dislike AI. It is like disliking a car or a knife or a toaster... Worse even it is like disliking the newest toasters as AI has been a thing for years now. Depending on what you define AI as what I am writing now is being routed optimally using intelligent algorithm. My misspelled words are being corrected by using the same fundamental computer science concepts that make up the new chatbots just scaled WAY the f up and using reinforcement learning NNs. It is just predictive text... So yeh just newest version of toaster or car or knife or any other tool that has been part of lives since i can remember.
Load More Replies...There is a right way and a wrong way to use AI for this purpose. This was the wrong way. Let it fine tune his words, let it inspire him, but for it to be recognizable as AI means he didn't even try or do a good job. They're 👏 WEDDING 👏 VOWS 👏 It's you telling the love of your life why you love them and why you want to spend the rest of your life with them... and he couldn't write it himself? Or (even worse) when confronted about it think of one single thing to say to her? I'm so happy for her that she walked away. That has to be the best decision she could have made for herself.
I think AI is good for mining, organizing and manipulating closed data sets (i.e., where the source, relevance and reliability of the data is known) for utilitarian purposes. It's also okay (not great, but useable) for taking notes. It can be useful for altering the tone of an already written piece. It can also perform basic tasks such as coding, drawing a diagram, etc (but this needs to be proofed for accuracy). Trying to use AI to think, act, create and perform like a human being (analysis, innovation, problem solving or creativity), or take the place of a human being in a relationship? Nope, nope and nope. (Note that this is an overall comment about AI, my take on OP's situation was in other comments.)
I got flack for admitting I used a spreadsheet to work out a speech. I cannot imagine what would happen with AI now adays. They told me mid speech to just use the original so I went to my room and pulled out a novel sizwd stack and dropped it on the table.... Suddenly my 3 page speech I had before was perfectly fine.
I have never used ChatGPT, honestly am not sure what it is. While it would have been better if the OP had written the vows themselves, I don't see the harm in using a tool to help him write them. Some people just don't know how to say what they are feeling. As long as he used it with good intentions and it sounded reasonably like him, what's the damage? It sounds like his fiance grossly overacted or was looking for a way to leave the relationship.
ChatGPT is a predictive text generator, think like autofill but fancier, it takes what you say and finds the most probable response. It's trained off of pretty much the entire internet, most of that data stolen by the company who made it. Unfortunately people tend to treat it like a search engine, when it has no way of searching the internet, only guessing what the answer is by figuring out word order.
Load More Replies...This chick and her friends and everyone supporting her needs to get over themselves. Hopefully he didnt get married to her.
I feel that a lot of people "against AI" aren't knowing it very well or assume how this man used it. There's a MASSIVE difference between an AI-generated text with little cues and an AI-generated text with A LOT of detailed requests about tones, content... A LOT of people are using "AI" to improve their writing: one of the simplest way is to throw it your own text and ask to fix the grammar for instance, or to make it "more polite". It's a great tool for people who are super uncomfortable with writing skills, and there are. We don't know what the vows were, so it's hard to say how much this man put into it but I disagree that using AI to help automatically means he put no effort into it. You can spend hours refining a text with the help of ChatGPT. In any case, I think he dodged a bullet.
So many men think they are justified in behavior because they think they can get away with it with their romantic partners--even if that partner has caught them time after time and has clearly expressed that it's problematic. And the men come to think they HAVE gotten away with things that she absolutely clocked but chose not to go through yet another fight over. Then when she finally has had enough, she blows up or walks out and the man claims she left over "nothing," and she should have "given him a chance." She gave you so many chances to fix things. You knew you were doing things she didn't want but as long as you weren't getting in trouble, you assumed she didn't know and everything was cool. Even when you were lying to her face and escalating those negative behaviors. That's an elementary-aged child's way of looking at the world.
This just feels like the last straw. Like she's endured his lack of effort and carelessness, inability to communicate and unwillingness to be open, authentic or vulnerable to a terminal point. Even his inability to understand what he did wrong and comprehend that gifts weren't going to fix it indicates a deep lack of emotional intelligence. Dude needs to work on himself. Get some councilling for the spectacular blowup of the relationship and work on being more conscientious.
Wife overreacted. It doesn't seem like the first time. Now she's doubling down and continuing to punish him. If she won't come to the table and go to counseling, there's no hope for the relationship.
This guy dodged a bullet. This woman was so emotionally childish that she couldn’t just grin and bear it. He used a tool to help him write what was clearly an uncomfortable and difficult thing for him to express. She couldn’t handle it to the point that she threw away a relationship, ruined a marriage, and broke his heart. It’s AI, not nazism. Calm down. Could you imagine the other childish emotional meltdowns she would have had?
I get using AI to help clarify thoughts or make it sound more coherent, but if you can't come up with vows, you shouldn't get married. That was a huge red flag that I missed at my own wedding.
They shouldn't have come to this point anyway. It is as much her fault as his. If she has never had an inkling of his insecurity in expressing himself, she never even saw him for real. And if she knew, she should have decided before she stood at the altar she couldn't live with that. Either he has expressed his feelings in a thousand ways before and then the vows don't matter that much, or he didn't and than the vows make up for nothing. Of course it is his fault to begin with. Regardless of how we think of AI, he shouldn't have used it as he knows she doesn't like it.
I am a writter. Lately i use AI to help in my work. But I can say 98% of what I do is mine. But this is work, not a relationship. If he really wanted to search for help he could talk to real people. "Hey, your are the mom (sibling, friend) Could you please help me with the vows?" I know people ae now tired of AI and I know why. But at the orther side, I think ex is exagerating. , but at the same time if i am the bride I could think it with calm. But I am only a reader, I can asume the feeling of the OP o the ex.
He'll go straight to some incel forum and complain about his 'crazy ex' who 'made a big huff about nothing' while 'he even offered to make up for it'. That guy is lost and unless he manages a 180 degree turn Scrooge-like, he should get a warning stamp on his forehead, so that no other woman falls for this loser.
"Women expect us to read their minds!" Guys...i promise if you listen we often tell you exactly what it is we want. Dont do something a little different or "even better!" We're telling you bc we know it helps us both...theres no lines to read between. Most of us arent trying to set you up for failure just to be able to compain. Just listen to your partners. (All sexes/genders) if youre not sure you understand, repeat it back "so what im hearing you say is...you do really want a blue sweater but you hate turtlenecks? So like a different neckline?" "So youre saying all your tools are *brand* but youre interested in checking out *other brand?*" it shows youre listening and you care enough to understand ❤️
You sound like a nice guy, maybe somewhat clueless. But she was looking for an out. It was only a matter of time before she would blow every single thing out of proportion. Especially the fact she was out of state, with her sister, hanging out with friends? I believe there are al lot of voices in het ear telling her she’s to good for you. I totally get why you would use AI for your vows! I’m 39, married a little while ago and I thought about it! I talked to my husband and we just decided to skip the vows! 🤣 Even if you used it, it took time, effort and talking to a computer about how you feel about someone is a big step! I just think you dodged a bullet.
Some people just aren’t good at writing. Let’s say they’re tongue-tied. Using AI maks sense if he just couldn’t find the words. Of course, if he took the vows straight off the machine with no attempt to personalize, yeah that’s really bad. But he doesn’t deserve the pasting he’s getting here. And yeah, if she’s already out partying, I’d say he’s lucky he’s not stuck with her.
I went to a wedding shower where people were invited to write joke vows. (I didn't know the couple well enough so didn't even try). When everyone's offerings were being read out loud at the party, you could tell everyone used AI. Everyone. Even the bride's best friend and sister. Honestly, it was a bit of a bummer.
You dodged a HUGE bullet bro. Be thankful you never had kids with someone with that level of crazy
This cracks me up. I hate AI with a passion, since we use it for all the wrong things (art, f.e). All that wedding BS in the US is way over the top, but if you can't even write some nice things gs about your partner, you've got no business in front of an altar. Do city hall instead and save a lot of money and headache 😆😆😆
I'm sorry but this just screams fake at me. Who would react like that? You might give them a hard time afterwards if it didn't 'smell right' but this sounds like some AI rage baiting nonsense to me.
Yes, obviously a fake or a gross exaggeration at least, far too extreme.
Load More Replies...meh, 100% chance you stuck your bits in crazy. and you should never stick your bits in crazy. Was it a stupid move to AI your vows, yeah, did her reaction indicate someone with a God complex, yeah. Consider this moment your helping hand from a supreme being who didn't want to see you spend the rest of your life trapped with the Manson family.
Two words for both of these lol GROW UP !!! honestly what the f k did I just read 🤦♀️😂I loath A.I, it’s so fake ,n she loaths this so he just goes ahead n uses it anyway , nah she just used that as a final straw ,he’s clearly totally useless , I mean he don’t like the replies WELL DONT F KIN ASK IF UR GONNA GET ALL WOE IS ME PATHETIC OVER THE ANSWERS 🤦♀️,I feel so sorry for any woman that is stupid enough to marry him , unless he grows up FAST ,,n the now ex g f needs to quit being such a drama queen lol they are BOTH THE A HOLES ,
We all bemoan the fact that there are adults now who have never known a world without the internet and social media. And we can all see the social and emotional damage that it has done. Now we are rearing a generation of children who literally never have to think for themselves. Never have to make a decision that isn't handed off to a machine. Never have to decide for themselves what to watch, read, or listen to. What to purchase, where to eat, what to cook for dinner. We are training the human race to be powerless idiots.
Load More Replies...People I know seem to find it puzzling that I'm as rabidly anti-AI as I am. Well, it's not just because of the horrible ethical and environmental violations. It's because I'm autistic. All my life I've had to put up with people, including close family, treating me like I can't do things. In other words, infantilising me. Nothing sets me off harder than being treated like I'm too stupid and helpless to get things done, and now it's escalated to "oh why don't you just used ChaptGPT to write that for you!". I AM A 20 YEAR VETERAN PUBLISHED AUTHOR WITH MULTIPLE DEGREES. Why the everloving fucksticks would I EVER need a f*****g robot to write for me? So it goes without saying that seeing people voluntarily infantilise themselves like this to the point of thinking the most human emotions of all can be handed over to the machine makes me want to go on a k i l l i n g spree. This loser can go marry f*****g ChatGPT if he loves it that much.
I'm also rabidly anti-AI. We're going to forget how to do things for ourselves. I used to do graphic design stuff on the side, but now people just tell chatgpt or whatever what they want made. Do people really need help writing a freaking email?? Or, in this case, words from the heart??? It's disgusting. And hardly environmentally friendly.
Load More Replies...1/2: I know I'll get downvoted into oblivion here but I honestly don't see what the big deal is. AI is a tool. If I love someone from a different culture and I use a dictionary/google/AI to learn what "I love you" is in their first language it doesn't mean my love isn't real because I didn't know the words. We don't even know HOW OP used AI. Maybe he told ChatGPT what he loves about her and what to include, and not just "write wedding vows". Maybe he knew he wasn't good with words and wanted the vows to be extra polished and not feel like a blubbering idiot. We just don't know. And what everyone seems to forget: the wedding is not the end goal, it's a party. The end goal is a marriage. She knew he loved her, and saw the million different things he did to show her his love over the years. The vows were one single moment that didn't invalidate the years before.
We know the wife spotted then and there that AI was used, so it wasn't subtle. (And using AI to translate texts often leads to horrible results; use at least one native from the other culture to proofread what you concocted)
Load More Replies...I’m rabidly anti-AI. And I agree that using AI to write vows was a moronic move. However, breaking up with someone over something like that can mean only one thing: it was only a trigger, the straw that broke the proverbial camel’s back. There were probably serious problems in that relationship that went much deeper than this AI thing.
Like numerous other times OP declined to put any real effort into things for her, or decided he knew better than she did what she actually wanted—-which of course, was what HE wanted instead. She rightfully decided that she wasn’t going to waste herself on a selfish oaf who only puts minimal effort into anything for her. I bet if it’s something for him, he puts more than enough effort into it, and is very precise in what he wants and how he likes it. He probably has a tantrum when it isn’t right.
Load More Replies...Sorry, buddy; given she said she didn't like AI initially and you went and did AI vows anyway, you're... well, I I'm not 100% on if I would call you an AH as such, but I would absolutely call you a muppet. Taking away the whole 'AI' thing in that one can argue it's not thoughtful, etc, *she said she didn't like it and you did it anyway*. I'm not married, but I assume it's the one day you'd want to get everything right. And for that, well. You may not have been intending to be an AH but I do think you were a DH (dickhead, not 'dear' husband') for thinking that "hey, she doesn't like AI, but it'll be okay on the wedding day!".
When my wife and i got married we had to do our entrance again because the first time our bouquets were missing and we were so nervous we didn't notice until we were standing in front of the officiant. The flower boys (my brothers) had forgot them in their cars. We all laughed about it and we did our entrance again, this time with the bouquets. Your wedding day isn't supposed to be perfect, but it's supposed to be truthful to the love you feel for eachother.
Load More Replies...AI made me believe in the human soul by showing what art looks like it without one
Pretty sure I'll be downvoted to oblivion for this. My husband is a published author. When we were planning the wedding he said his one "thing" was that we don't write our own vows. The thought of having to do that, in front of an audience too made him incredibly anxious. I would like to know if OP was given an option about writing their own vows. If he didn't feel he could voice his concerns to her, that's a worry - but is that on him? How does she usually react when he disagrees - what's the dynamic there? Either way, in our situation I totally understood, didn't want my husband to be in a position where he felt that uncomfortable, and we didn't write our own vows. And I personally think it's unfair to put him on the spot too - I wouldn't be able to articulately convey up my love for my husband spur of the moment in front of an audience. I'd like more information on the situation. However, making up for it with snacks... yeah, could've done better. Hopefully they both dodged a bullet
I agree. I know neither mine nor my husband's strong skills is putting thoughts and feelings into words. I would never put him (or me) through that.
Load More Replies...Vows shouldn't be a surprise at the altar. They should have sat down before the event and gone over the vows together. He should have been honest with her in that he didn't know where to start or how to say what he wanted to say, at least then she'd have known and worked with him. Instead he cheated on the assignment and she flunked him. Ai can be helpful in flowering up the meaning and how you want to express yourself, but don't lose yourself in it.
Yes! Something as important as a public vow should not come as a surprise to the other party. It should be agreed upon beforehand - to prevent just such situations as this.
Load More Replies...Either he didn't feel comfortable telling his partner he was struggling to write vows, or he didn't understand her. Either way, they weren't a good couple. Lots of people wouldn't care if the cows were chatgpt - I've been to five or six weddings just with standard vows or who have the officiant ask the do you take etc But obviously personal vows were really important to his ex and obviously he didn't feel he could say he was having a hard time, and that's the biggest sign to me that they weren't a good match.
Husband and I said our "I do" and then each read out a love poem. His in French by a Belgian writer, mine a sonnet by Shakespeare in English. That reflected our appreciation of literature and each other. Having some common and complementary traits, we've been able to get past such problems as hubby not adding enough milk when he serves me coffee. Yup, told him. I'll live, LOL.
Load More Replies...Maybe it's just an age thing, but since when was each partner writing their own vows a thing? A part of the rationale behind the standard wedding services used for centuries is that it's a balance, each person is making the same promises to each other (OK, at least since we got rid of "obey") , it's a sign of sharing, of how you're each saying "I'll always be there for you", as I know you will for me.
In English speaking countries there's no standard wedding ceremony that's been used for centuries. Men didn't even typically wear wedding rings until after WW2. Certainly few Christian ceremonies (which would have been the norm in English speaking places) were concerned with equity of vows. Until 1922 even the Anglican church still had women swear to obey their husbands. You acknowledge this, but shrug it off like it doesn't demonstrate the assumed inequality in a relationship. It's been common since the 50s to have your own vows, though wasn't the norm until the 70s. By mid 70s it was featured on TV, in film and in books as common place, and not as something surprising as it was in the 50/60s. So not sure how old you are, but probably not an age thing I would guess a religious thing.
Load More Replies...I think the bride's reaction is more about "the straw that broke the camel's back" than just the vows. It was, apparently, the last of a longer line of incidents that made her come to believe he wasn't the partner she hoped he was.
Wow, toxicity of the Internet on total display here. Is he an idiot? Yes. Is she overreacting? Yes. Is counseling a good idea? Yes. Are complete strangers warranted in destroying him? No. I'm ashamed of my fellow humans' judgmental attitudes. Must be nice to be perfect people...
Agreee with you, good summary! Lazy a*s + drama queen…. Promising….
Load More Replies...Vows are an agreement which both consent to. I don't understand why they didn't go over them well before standing at the altar. That's like taking out a loan but not asking about the interest rate or repayment schedule until you show up at the bank to pick up the check.
Using the internet or AI to help you fine tune something, look for big mistakes, no problem, like using spell check but if you said “ I need wedding vows for a hot blond 30 something…”
I have the opposite take. Using AI to find a starting point is fine but you want to fine tune it yourself, make it personal. But trying to distill a promise to a few sentences, I completely understand how it might be helpful to hear how others have started .
Load More Replies...1/2: While in the context of this story with the bride repeatedly expressing her hatred for AI the groom's actions are terrible, and he comes off as a guy who is insufferable, I'd say that in general using AI to help write wedding wows (as long as it was used to help polish it, not just "gimme' some wows") is not necessarily a big deal. The whole "you should make an effort", "if you loved me you would be able to find the most personal present/say the nicest wows/figure out what I'm thinking" thing can be blown out of proportion. Some people are simply NOT good with words, or presents, or showing their emotions in a way that matches the receiver's expectations. That's the same as some are good with maths, other with gardening, others are great drivers. I'm the most terrible driver in the world, and no matter how much I love someone, or practice, or put in whatever effort, I can't do it in a safe and effective way.
2/2: It's not about being lazy, it's lacking some native skill that will not suddenly show up just because "I care". Same way, some can't stand up in front of a crowd and "just speak from the heart", because the best they will come up with is "I sorta' like ya'", and that doesn't mean they don't love the other person, just that they lack certain skills to the extreme. And it can be exhausting if you're being told over and over again that you should just magically do better.
Load More Replies...Doesn't sound like they communicated a lot in general.
Load More Replies...Went back for age as thought this was written by 21/22m. 35. Duuuuude. AI was the final straw. And then you decided snacks and flowers was a fix.
You dodged a bullet. She's too dramatic/excitable. Your marriage would have been h\Hell on Earth.
Half-asses the most important part of his bride's most important day. Is victim, still.
Anyone who cares more about a wedding ring/wedding day/vows/whatever over the happiness of actually being married is obviously doing it for the wrong reasons. If you are super happy about the idea of spending your life together but over a minor detail you break off your entire relationship is totally mental.
I would call off the wedding if my partner insisted we write our own vows. That is rife for stress, heartache, embarrassment. Whoever came up with that idea is a sadist.
Couldn't he Google "what are some things to say in wedding vows" and gone from there? No, *he* had to AI the whole thing. 🤦♀️
What's the difference between googling you wedding vows and using AI?
Load More Replies...I'm glad I am not young today. If they really loved each other they would have gotten past it. He did something he thought would help him make his vows better. Always consider the intention behind the action, not just the action itself. Poor guy. He dodged a bullet. She's crazy for never talking to him again after they built a life together to the point they were ready to say I do. She was looking for an out. People use to give each other hallmark cards to say how they felt. Nobody flipped out over that. How is this so different? These people who responded as they did above are the fragile flowers that we now have ready to run our country.....Pray for us.
Traditional wedding vows have been commonly used since the 16th century. But this is not about wedding vows or AI. This is about self sabotage. Person A was well aware Person B abhorred X. Person A specifically & intentionally utilized X with Person B. It really doesn’t take an ounce of thought to see how that would be received by Person B. It was intentional & the consequences would’ve been obvious.
From back to front: When even the dragon-fodder doesn't work, and the poor guy has no idea, how and why happened the fallout. BRUH. When he has no control over how his family talks to his former bride, and has no intention to mediate. BRUH. When he simply disregarded her wish, and instead of either expressing his discomfort about the self-written wows, or actively putting into a few hours of effort by looking up others' wows, asking the officiant, search for a fitting quote in some book or whatever, he puts in a few minutes and does the only thing she despises, BRUH.
Dude dodged a bullet. She shouds complete intolerant and exhausting. So he used AI to help write something he's not good at doing. I am SURE she didn't use ANY inspiriation from things other people have written or said over the last 100 years to influence her vows. He said it herself, she's confrontational, has decided she "despises AI" for no good reason, and was looking for a fight, becuase she always is. This is what the entirety of what the short marriage would of been. She's only happy being miserable, let her be happy alone.
So she expressed her extreme dislike of AI, well beforehand and known to OP, and he chose "the most important day of their lives" to read some AI garbage to her??!!!! I'd be furious too!
Wedding vows are something personal. Even if you are as dumb as this guy appears to be one should write them themselves. Still i dont understand why she would fundamentally dislike AI. It is like disliking a car or a knife or a toaster... Worse even it is like disliking the newest toasters as AI has been a thing for years now. Depending on what you define AI as what I am writing now is being routed optimally using intelligent algorithm. My misspelled words are being corrected by using the same fundamental computer science concepts that make up the new chatbots just scaled WAY the f up and using reinforcement learning NNs. It is just predictive text... So yeh just newest version of toaster or car or knife or any other tool that has been part of lives since i can remember.
Load More Replies...There is a right way and a wrong way to use AI for this purpose. This was the wrong way. Let it fine tune his words, let it inspire him, but for it to be recognizable as AI means he didn't even try or do a good job. They're 👏 WEDDING 👏 VOWS 👏 It's you telling the love of your life why you love them and why you want to spend the rest of your life with them... and he couldn't write it himself? Or (even worse) when confronted about it think of one single thing to say to her? I'm so happy for her that she walked away. That has to be the best decision she could have made for herself.
I think AI is good for mining, organizing and manipulating closed data sets (i.e., where the source, relevance and reliability of the data is known) for utilitarian purposes. It's also okay (not great, but useable) for taking notes. It can be useful for altering the tone of an already written piece. It can also perform basic tasks such as coding, drawing a diagram, etc (but this needs to be proofed for accuracy). Trying to use AI to think, act, create and perform like a human being (analysis, innovation, problem solving or creativity), or take the place of a human being in a relationship? Nope, nope and nope. (Note that this is an overall comment about AI, my take on OP's situation was in other comments.)
I got flack for admitting I used a spreadsheet to work out a speech. I cannot imagine what would happen with AI now adays. They told me mid speech to just use the original so I went to my room and pulled out a novel sizwd stack and dropped it on the table.... Suddenly my 3 page speech I had before was perfectly fine.
I have never used ChatGPT, honestly am not sure what it is. While it would have been better if the OP had written the vows themselves, I don't see the harm in using a tool to help him write them. Some people just don't know how to say what they are feeling. As long as he used it with good intentions and it sounded reasonably like him, what's the damage? It sounds like his fiance grossly overacted or was looking for a way to leave the relationship.
ChatGPT is a predictive text generator, think like autofill but fancier, it takes what you say and finds the most probable response. It's trained off of pretty much the entire internet, most of that data stolen by the company who made it. Unfortunately people tend to treat it like a search engine, when it has no way of searching the internet, only guessing what the answer is by figuring out word order.
Load More Replies...This chick and her friends and everyone supporting her needs to get over themselves. Hopefully he didnt get married to her.
I feel that a lot of people "against AI" aren't knowing it very well or assume how this man used it. There's a MASSIVE difference between an AI-generated text with little cues and an AI-generated text with A LOT of detailed requests about tones, content... A LOT of people are using "AI" to improve their writing: one of the simplest way is to throw it your own text and ask to fix the grammar for instance, or to make it "more polite". It's a great tool for people who are super uncomfortable with writing skills, and there are. We don't know what the vows were, so it's hard to say how much this man put into it but I disagree that using AI to help automatically means he put no effort into it. You can spend hours refining a text with the help of ChatGPT. In any case, I think he dodged a bullet.
So many men think they are justified in behavior because they think they can get away with it with their romantic partners--even if that partner has caught them time after time and has clearly expressed that it's problematic. And the men come to think they HAVE gotten away with things that she absolutely clocked but chose not to go through yet another fight over. Then when she finally has had enough, she blows up or walks out and the man claims she left over "nothing," and she should have "given him a chance." She gave you so many chances to fix things. You knew you were doing things she didn't want but as long as you weren't getting in trouble, you assumed she didn't know and everything was cool. Even when you were lying to her face and escalating those negative behaviors. That's an elementary-aged child's way of looking at the world.
This just feels like the last straw. Like she's endured his lack of effort and carelessness, inability to communicate and unwillingness to be open, authentic or vulnerable to a terminal point. Even his inability to understand what he did wrong and comprehend that gifts weren't going to fix it indicates a deep lack of emotional intelligence. Dude needs to work on himself. Get some councilling for the spectacular blowup of the relationship and work on being more conscientious.
Wife overreacted. It doesn't seem like the first time. Now she's doubling down and continuing to punish him. If she won't come to the table and go to counseling, there's no hope for the relationship.
This guy dodged a bullet. This woman was so emotionally childish that she couldn’t just grin and bear it. He used a tool to help him write what was clearly an uncomfortable and difficult thing for him to express. She couldn’t handle it to the point that she threw away a relationship, ruined a marriage, and broke his heart. It’s AI, not nazism. Calm down. Could you imagine the other childish emotional meltdowns she would have had?
I get using AI to help clarify thoughts or make it sound more coherent, but if you can't come up with vows, you shouldn't get married. That was a huge red flag that I missed at my own wedding.
They shouldn't have come to this point anyway. It is as much her fault as his. If she has never had an inkling of his insecurity in expressing himself, she never even saw him for real. And if she knew, she should have decided before she stood at the altar she couldn't live with that. Either he has expressed his feelings in a thousand ways before and then the vows don't matter that much, or he didn't and than the vows make up for nothing. Of course it is his fault to begin with. Regardless of how we think of AI, he shouldn't have used it as he knows she doesn't like it.
I am a writter. Lately i use AI to help in my work. But I can say 98% of what I do is mine. But this is work, not a relationship. If he really wanted to search for help he could talk to real people. "Hey, your are the mom (sibling, friend) Could you please help me with the vows?" I know people ae now tired of AI and I know why. But at the orther side, I think ex is exagerating. , but at the same time if i am the bride I could think it with calm. But I am only a reader, I can asume the feeling of the OP o the ex.
He'll go straight to some incel forum and complain about his 'crazy ex' who 'made a big huff about nothing' while 'he even offered to make up for it'. That guy is lost and unless he manages a 180 degree turn Scrooge-like, he should get a warning stamp on his forehead, so that no other woman falls for this loser.
"Women expect us to read their minds!" Guys...i promise if you listen we often tell you exactly what it is we want. Dont do something a little different or "even better!" We're telling you bc we know it helps us both...theres no lines to read between. Most of us arent trying to set you up for failure just to be able to compain. Just listen to your partners. (All sexes/genders) if youre not sure you understand, repeat it back "so what im hearing you say is...you do really want a blue sweater but you hate turtlenecks? So like a different neckline?" "So youre saying all your tools are *brand* but youre interested in checking out *other brand?*" it shows youre listening and you care enough to understand ❤️
You sound like a nice guy, maybe somewhat clueless. But she was looking for an out. It was only a matter of time before she would blow every single thing out of proportion. Especially the fact she was out of state, with her sister, hanging out with friends? I believe there are al lot of voices in het ear telling her she’s to good for you. I totally get why you would use AI for your vows! I’m 39, married a little while ago and I thought about it! I talked to my husband and we just decided to skip the vows! 🤣 Even if you used it, it took time, effort and talking to a computer about how you feel about someone is a big step! I just think you dodged a bullet.
Some people just aren’t good at writing. Let’s say they’re tongue-tied. Using AI maks sense if he just couldn’t find the words. Of course, if he took the vows straight off the machine with no attempt to personalize, yeah that’s really bad. But he doesn’t deserve the pasting he’s getting here. And yeah, if she’s already out partying, I’d say he’s lucky he’s not stuck with her.
I went to a wedding shower where people were invited to write joke vows. (I didn't know the couple well enough so didn't even try). When everyone's offerings were being read out loud at the party, you could tell everyone used AI. Everyone. Even the bride's best friend and sister. Honestly, it was a bit of a bummer.
You dodged a HUGE bullet bro. Be thankful you never had kids with someone with that level of crazy
This cracks me up. I hate AI with a passion, since we use it for all the wrong things (art, f.e). All that wedding BS in the US is way over the top, but if you can't even write some nice things gs about your partner, you've got no business in front of an altar. Do city hall instead and save a lot of money and headache 😆😆😆
I'm sorry but this just screams fake at me. Who would react like that? You might give them a hard time afterwards if it didn't 'smell right' but this sounds like some AI rage baiting nonsense to me.
Yes, obviously a fake or a gross exaggeration at least, far too extreme.
Load More Replies...meh, 100% chance you stuck your bits in crazy. and you should never stick your bits in crazy. Was it a stupid move to AI your vows, yeah, did her reaction indicate someone with a God complex, yeah. Consider this moment your helping hand from a supreme being who didn't want to see you spend the rest of your life trapped with the Manson family.
Two words for both of these lol GROW UP !!! honestly what the f k did I just read 🤦♀️😂I loath A.I, it’s so fake ,n she loaths this so he just goes ahead n uses it anyway , nah she just used that as a final straw ,he’s clearly totally useless , I mean he don’t like the replies WELL DONT F KIN ASK IF UR GONNA GET ALL WOE IS ME PATHETIC OVER THE ANSWERS 🤦♀️,I feel so sorry for any woman that is stupid enough to marry him , unless he grows up FAST ,,n the now ex g f needs to quit being such a drama queen lol they are BOTH THE A HOLES ,
We all bemoan the fact that there are adults now who have never known a world without the internet and social media. And we can all see the social and emotional damage that it has done. Now we are rearing a generation of children who literally never have to think for themselves. Never have to make a decision that isn't handed off to a machine. Never have to decide for themselves what to watch, read, or listen to. What to purchase, where to eat, what to cook for dinner. We are training the human race to be powerless idiots.
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