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Everyone always talks about AI girlfriends. What about AI boyfriends?

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Re: Everyone always talks about AI girlfriends. What about AI boyfriends?

#13

AI boyfriends do not enter the conversation much because it acts as a counterpoint to the sound byte that 'AI girlfriends are for incels'.

Alas the femcel, despite the “single woman” epidemic, cannot enter the convo!

because femcels in large don't exist. Being single doesn't make them a femcel.

Re: Everyone always talks about AI girlfriends. What about AI boyfriends?

#15

Women don’t have nearly as much trouble finding real boyfriends as men have finding real girlfriends.

Not questioning your statement, but I think the article was about something very different. Can't really put a finger on it, not the author did. I think it is very deep rabbit hole about humans as a whole.

Re: Everyone always talks about AI girlfriends. What about AI boyfriends?

#16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Alas the femcel, despite the “single woman” epidemic, cannot enter the convo!

because femcels in large don't exist. Being single doesn't make them a femcel.

I believe they exist. Peep /r/foreveralonewomen for a good example (that’s also public)

Re: Everyone always talks about AI girlfriends. What about AI boyfriends?

#19

Women don’t have nearly as much trouble finding real boyfriends as men have finding real girlfriends.

I mean, given a roughly 1:1 gender ratio that would be difficult to be entirely true. And I suspect if you speak with many women, you'll get some pretty strong pushback on this. More systematically, surveys consistently show equal levels of dissatisfaction with their dating lives between men and women.

For both men and women, it's actually relatively easy to find a partner that you wouldn't consider dating; finding an optimal partner is hard.

Re: Everyone always talks about AI girlfriends. What about AI boyfriends?

#20

Women don’t have nearly as much trouble finding real boyfriends as men have finding real girlfriends.

That doesn’t really make sense statistically speaking

Non-monogamy is a thing, especially since most 'dating' is ambiguous/casual now. Multiple women can share the same 'boyfriend'. Twice as many young men are single compared to young women.

Many young women these days don't realize their 'boyfriend' just sees them as an friends with benefits and is seeing multiple women simultaneously.

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"Most young men are single. Most young women are not."

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3868557-most-yo...

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/02/08/for-valen...

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