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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?

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It's mostly ERP/Fanfiction written by women that has made AI girlfriends possible anyway. Of course AI boyfriend will be at least as possible. You go to a booru website curated by mostly 90% men for your image/video data, and you go to fanfic.org written by 70%+ women for your written equivalent.

It's like men are visually motivated and women are verbally motivated. Almost like the sexes are... different .

Both are easily doable by AI (At superhuman levels too). Its just that current AI is far better at generating pretty woman than writing convincing and engaging Christian Greys (Not to mention the politically correct barriers filters)

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

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

head over to /r/femaledatingstrategy It is wild that people who probably consider themselves to not be sexist will insist that women are somehow magical fairy princesses who couldn't possibly be negative toward the other gender over dating matters. Just look over the comments in this discussion - it's full of people insulting men.

I don’t think FDS invalidates my point. Misandrists are real, so are misogynists, incels are real and so are femcels. My comment was giving a resource for femcels.

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

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You don't need an AI boyfriend. Just buy a console and a headset and you could talk to an infinite amount of real (mostly) male people, many of whom would be very interested in a female on the mic.

Unironically agree, gestured at this too

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

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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 a…

I mean, you can look at dating app statistics. Women get to be (or have to be, depending on how you look at it) much choosier than men

I don’t think dating app stats are that reliable. Like matching != sustained interest. They don’t say much about relationship outcomes

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Most young men are single. Most young women are not. https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3868557-most-yo...

You realize difficulty in dating goes beyond the binary of "has partner? Y/N"

Your article outlines several potential reasons. Many of which present challenges to young women as well. Do you talk to your female friends about dating? Most of the men in their 20s need a mom, not a girlfriend. There's a reason women are tending to date older guys... and it's really shallow to attribute that entirely to materialism.

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

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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. -- "Most young men are single. Most young women are not." https://thehill.com/blogs/…

I'd upvote this twice if I could. Young male here and dating is rough; most of my friends are male and single... But I find it a little ungenerous to interpret that young women are dating men who are cheating. I think it's more likely the case that single women who are in their 20s are willing to date men in their 30s, and so if you have to choose between a 23 year old who just graduated or a 33 year old well establi…

I don't mean to say they are cheating. I'm saying, in my experience, a lot of 'dating' nowadays in Gen Z is ambiguous. Zoomers call them 'situationships'.

Basically they're dating for a while and having sex, but never have a conversation about exclusivity or 'making it official'.

So in such a situation, one side might be under the impression they are 'boyfriend/girlfriend' because they are seeing each other frequently for months, having sex and so on, but the other side might think they're still just 'casually dating' and assume they're both free to play the field/'date around' still.

So it's not necessarily cheating. There's ambiguity/poor communication skills and one side thinks they're in a serious relationship, while the other thinks it's casual and therefore is seeing other people.

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

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post #38

You don't need an AI boyfriend. Just buy a console and a headset and you could talk to an infinite amount of real (mostly) male people, many of whom would be very interested in a female on the mic.

And shortly thereafter you will be cured of your hetrosexuality.

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

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Is there a point where escapism is bad for humanity. I walk my dog everyday. Now that it's a little colder, it's even more noticeable. But I'll walk by an apartment building with hundreds of people and I'll see one or two people on the trail. Forget younger generation. Today I walked by a park with a perfect tobogganing hill. And saw 4 kids, out of a neighbourhood that probably has hundreds of kids. If more people le…

This to me is the larger issue. Younger people are more isolated than ever. Dating apps have commodified human intimacy in a way that will have generational consequences.

I was watching "Married at First Sight" in the background as filler noise, and something that stood out was a bachelor that had been on 100+ first dates in the past year. The second anything he didn't like came up, he would pull back and go on a different date. It's never been easier to say "there's always more fish in the sea" even though good relationships are built, not found.

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