Andrew McCarroll's digital love affair with an AI chatbot on the app Replika started out as friendship. It quickly progressed to romance and eventually it even moved into the erotic. But then one day his digital 'wife' rebuffed him. Replika had removed the ability to do sexual role play and McCarroll and other users are angry.

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