[steveBK123]

It's mostly for males because the developers behind them are targeting themselves. However I would imagine the market for female users would likely be equal if not larger...

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There are places with thousands of user-made bot characters. Some are pretty good quality. From a quick look about half of them are male characters.

Developers don't need to _create bots_, just wrap the UI around the interface to the model that can pretend good enough.