| >just jump on any dating app and swipe right once This ignores the very significant potential risks to personal safety which are simply much higher for women meeting new potential partners than for men. In addition to the stated distinction between companionship and casual coupling. At least right now an AI bot can't - pretend emotional investment to get sex - lose its shit and harass you over message and at work when the relationship ends - pressure you into coming over after meeting for coffee and repeatedly insist around you declining - demand nudes and pout/manipulate if they don't get them - anything else in the big bag of tricks any women in your circle could tell you about that requires being a thinking, communicating human being with the capacity for manipulation and selfishness I've seen smarmy remarks online by men who seem convinced that AI girlfriends will really show these human women what's what, and we'll be so upset about the competition. No, please, if there was a digital resource toxic people could demand companionship from instead that might save the rest of us from it. Of course, until an AI bot can also do the dishes and the laundry, I don't think they'll be much competition to the relationships those sorts of men seek with women. |