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In the fall of last year a 32-year-old call center operator named Yurina Noguchi arrived at The Magritte the-magritte.jp, a popular wedding venue in Okayama, Japan. She had come to get married. The Magritte staff helped Yurina primp as she put on her makeup and did her hair before the intimate ceremony. Finally, dressed in a beaded pink gown and with tears streaming around her augmented smart glasses, she read her vows to Klaus Verdure, the AI-generated companion bot gazing out from her smartphone. Yurina had based him on a video game character and over the course of many months