Are there actual women who fear they can't compete with AI chatbots? In my opinion you wouldn't want to date anybody who prefers a chatbot to a real person.
We Can't Compete with AI Girlfriends
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
> maybe at worst it'll be good practice That's the worst you can imagine? :-)
I can imagine far worse. Besides all mental health issues and societal reproductive crises, we can easily get a black mirror-like situation where each one of the million copies of AI Girlfriend X convinces their 'boyfriends' to consume Y or, worse, vote for Z
I mean, that doesn't sound that different from our modern targeted advertising world.
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#53Translation: "We actually need to put as much effort as men do for dating"
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#55I don't know why people are focusing on what men will do with AI girlfriends - the actual question is what women will do with AI boyfriends. On every single AI chat app like character.ai the majority of users are women, and the most popular characters are men. Women are people who read romance novels and are even more attracted by the "emotional validation". > Now we’re facing a future where guys could get addicted t…
Not specifically about women, but...
I have met several women who regularly query ChatGPT for relationship advice.
Accepting the response as authoritative.
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#56> Of course most people are talking about what this means for men
> a worsening loneliness crisis, a further decline in sex rates, and ultimately the emergence of “a new generation of incels”
> Which is all very concerning.
Oh please. I don't see these women stepping up and volunteering to get emotionally or sexually intimate with all these incels they're complaining about. They're so concerned about men they wrote this article about how women can't compete with an AI.
It's precisely that attitude that makes these people "continually disappointing" as the article says. They should try actually caring.
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#57"Men are increasingly single and lonely, and have to use AI Girlfriends to get a sense of companionship, women most affected".
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#58Well, so women have to adjust? Some people might be fine with AI girlfriend, but come on, if someone can be replaced with limited, virtual entity, then bar is still set very low. Yes, maybe they can generate image of some virtual girlfriend and you can choose her hair or "personality", but it's still limited AI.
In most cases people take what they can get.
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#59I don't know, maybe at worst it'll be good practice. Awkward guys can interact with someone friendly in a no-consequence way, and maybe gain some comfort. In any case, with the exception of a few weirdos, I don't think most people are going to be confused about whether AI girlfriends are real, just as almost no one thinks a sex doll is real.
Hm, I don't know. Sex dolls don't pass the Turing test with flying colors. More than that, even without speech or action they are emotional surrogates for some needy people - making the simulacra perfect will make it easier for more and more lonely people (let's be honest, mostly men) to take that leap of 'suspension of disbelief'. Even among those that don't engage it may become more socially acceptable. I imagine s…
> Hm, I don't know. Sex dolls don't pass the Turing test with flying colors.
Having generic conversations is not enough intimacy for most people. Neither is sex dolls.
I worry about people’s shallowness that current state AI and sex dolls is sufficiently authentic. I think it says more about them than about AI. ChatGPT is an extremely generic and thus dull conversation partner, if you ignore the vast knowledge “it” has.
That said, of course it’s possible that AI improves rapidly.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doesn't that sound a bit tautological? One not wanting to date people one isn't interested in?
Maybe, but there are many, many studies showing that on dating apps, it's 80% of the women choosing 20% of the men. Many women are also fairly ignorant about how unrealistic some standards (over 6' tall, makes over $100K/yr.) are.
I don't think it's that they're ignorant. They probably don't really care if it's unrealistic or not. They're given a platform where they can describe exactly what it is they want, and given the imbalance in men/women on the platform, they've got a decent chance of getting it.