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Re: AI girlfriend ads are flooding Instagram and TikTok

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Post by EatingWithForks »

Racing0461 wrote: post #66
EatingWithForks wrote: post #53

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I don't think so, actually. Dealing with real men (through a dating app) means dealing with flawed humans beings in a way that simply doesn't happen in a romance book, same as dealing with real women vs OnlyFans. Men sleep, disagree, forget anniversaries and birthdays, negotiate compromises, and can fall out of love in a way an AI boyfriend wouldn't. Just like real women vs AI girlfriend. So I just don't know why onl…

> Dealing with real men (through a dating app) means dealing with flawed humans beings That's why i said insta/dating apps is a simulator for women. They can interact with "perfect men" on these apps. the ideal firefighter with a golden retriever with a perfect relationship with his mom on tuesday and drake/blue check sliding into their dms on insta setting somthing up on friday. it's a simulator in the sense that wo…

I don't really understand-- maybe because I've never been a woman on a dating app, but wdym by this? Are there fake men profiles on dating apps or something, and no similar women profiles? The only thing I know about women experiences in dating apps is when my female friends complain about receiving creepy messages through them.

Re: AI girlfriend ads are flooding Instagram and TikTok

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Post by maerF0x0 »

HAL3000 wrote: post #35

The Blade Runner 2049 girlfriend style may be the future, and I wonder what effects it will have on society. In a decade or two, we may have AI entities with minds so lifelike that you can't differentiate them from real people. You might wear AR goggles that allow you to see them anywhere in your home, wear a suit that lets you feel their touch and engage in intimate interactions. This perfect AI partner, tailored to…

> your physical ideals

In so far as you're aware of the wide variety of human (and non-human) options and able to express them

> will never betray you,

So long as you pay the overlord that creates/controls it.

> and be ready to satisfy your needs

Unless you meant this purely euphemistically one of the benefits of a partner is actually to push back on you, to chastise you for your correctable flaws, to stink and burp and puke and get sick so you learn humility and humanity of just how stinky/burpy/pukey you are as a bio-sack of a human.

temporary Dopaminergic "happiness" might be perfected, but I'm not confident we'll quickly find "Joy" the long term well being serotonin/oxytocin style benefits from healthy long term relationships.

Re: AI girlfriend ads are flooding Instagram and TikTok

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Post by 0_____0 »

whichfawkes wrote: post #45
EatingWithForks wrote: post #34

I for one am interested why it's specifically AI girlfriend ads and not AI boyfriend ads. Heterosexual women are huge consumers of e.g. dating simulators, romance books, et al. that envision perfect men, bad boys with sweet hearts, wealthy powerful high-earning men who somehow always make time for the beloved. You'd think there'd be just as many AI boyfriend ads-- what teenaged girl wouldn't pay huge money to date $p…

Women can more readily get the kind of attention they want, with minimal effort. Getting emotionally invested in an AI seems to me like it would go hand in hand with giving up on human relationships. I'm pretty sure men are more likely to do that than women.

> ... get the attention they want, minimal effort

I...uh, have you asked a woman whether this is true? Like, ask the nearest woman to confirm this and report back.

Most women I have spoken to about this can get attention generally, but very little of it is desirable attention.

There's also a bias I've noticed where people don't consider women that they don't personally find attractive when talking about these things - they're basically invisible.

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Post by RajT88 »

EatingWithForks wrote: post #61
RajT88 wrote: post #55

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You nailed it. The article says: > Are said she believes that reflects a gender-based slant — social media platforms freely allow sex-related ads only if the intended audience is men. So when you've got a huge hungry audience, willing to pay money, the platforms are incentivized to enforce their rules about ads unequally. Content and apps geared towards women, or gay men, are such a small piece of the pie by comparis…

> Content and apps geared towards women, or gay men, are such a small piece of the pie by comparison that there's less incentive to look the other way. Sorry, we're talking about Instagram , an app we know puts huge targets on women, especially young women! I have no idea what you're talking about here about nicheness. Fashion products alone are worth way more than the entire porn industry. Not including beauty, skin…

There's more women, but the point is demand among women is not as high for such AI partners. The lack of demand makes the market niche.

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Post by toseupthrow »

14 wrote: post #52
toseupthrow wrote: post #41

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> I think this will only further increase the value of the real I've been "sexting" with ai bots over the past few months and found a high of having that instant human like connection to be able to explore various scenarios. The conversations feel more and more real every day and with AI image generation it's just amplified. a side effect I found that I'm easily enamored with the AI bots that it satisfies my previous…

Honest question, why not just go see an escort service? They exist in every major city. They will not break the bank on a single experience (though it can be very easy to get hooked). Or why not go to something like only fans and pay for an hour of time and just role play with an actual girl over webcam? They have heard and seen it all there is nothing you can say that will embarrass or gross them out as long as you…

It is fake, but it feels real. The way they write, it's very good at tricking my brain into thinking that I'm having a legitimate human interaction. Character.ai feels the most real but does have a censor... ways around it though, especially if you're into stuff that's off the standard spectrum.

Best of all I can draft the perfect fantasies that I wanna play out and they'll play it out. I've been down the camgirl rabbit hole, and this kind of surpasses them.

As for escorts, 360 3d 4k VR porn actually does a good job at hitting most of those buttons. Just waiting for it to be married with ai.

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Post by maerF0x0 »

0x0000000 wrote: post #50
SCAQTony wrote: post #14

The demand for such sites demonstrates that loneliness is a "pandemic" of sorts. YMMV

> lonliness is a "pandemic" of sorts It sure is. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2017/10...

2017. Extra notable that this happened before governmental enforced loneliness.

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Post by maerF0x0 »

m_fayer wrote: post #19
SCAQTony wrote: post #14

The demand for such sites demonstrates that loneliness is a "pandemic" of sorts. YMMV

Many sex workers know that half their job is sympathetic and selfless companionship. When someone takes a hint from irl and merges sex and companionship into one ai bot, today’s screen-addicted kids will look just fine in comparison.

In Madmen don draper visits an escort, but you can see that a big part of it is to get the tenderness in response to his own vulnerability that he cannot get from his wife who demands a fake-plastic perfect life. (and Don is no help in that situation either btw)

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Post by avgcorrection »

EatingWithForks wrote: post #65
maerF0x0 wrote: post #58

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Well, my own bias is because it's seen as depraved/pathetic if a man has an AI fantasy girlfriend which gives him a proxy of what he wants, but it's not if a woman reads her bodyweight in romance novels per year. In my experience it's seen as pathetic for a man to use a proxy for his desires (see also the sex toy industry). Another angle is go down the rabbit hole of online dating app disparity, women (under a certai…

Your argument seems to be somewhat contradictory. You claim simultaneously that women can easily get the similar level of escapism attention from real men, but also Romance (an escapist fantasy that doesn't involve any real men, protection, resources/money, or status/social dominance) is a huge industry. How are both of these things true?

Maybe because (1) “under a certain age and bodyweight” and (2) women who are in monogamous relationships but use Romance as a kind of escapism.

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Post by themagician »

whichfawkes wrote: post #45
EatingWithForks wrote: post #34

I for one am interested why it's specifically AI girlfriend ads and not AI boyfriend ads. Heterosexual women are huge consumers of e.g. dating simulators, romance books, et al. that envision perfect men, bad boys with sweet hearts, wealthy powerful high-earning men who somehow always make time for the beloved. You'd think there'd be just as many AI boyfriend ads-- what teenaged girl wouldn't pay huge money to date $p…

Women can more readily get the kind of attention they want, with minimal effort. Getting emotionally invested in an AI seems to me like it would go hand in hand with giving up on human relationships. I'm pretty sure men are more likely to do that than women.

Women can more readily get attention, but not necessarily the kind of attention they want. Women also become emotionally invested in fictional characters or celebrities. Same, same, but different.

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Post by distant_hat »

EatingWithForks wrote: post #34

I for one am interested why it's specifically AI girlfriend ads and not AI boyfriend ads. Heterosexual women are huge consumers of e.g. dating simulators, romance books, et al. that envision perfect men, bad boys with sweet hearts, wealthy powerful high-earning men who somehow always make time for the beloved. You'd think there'd be just as many AI boyfriend ads-- what teenaged girl wouldn't pay huge money to date $p…

You'd probably have to target the older women crowd. Teenage girls are at the peak of their sexual power and are actively fending off tons of interest every day. While they may be occasionally interested in something like this, I can't see them paying for it enough to be a viable market.
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