The rise of AI girlfriends is making male loneliness worse and risks ruining a generation of men, a professor says

The availability of AI girlfriends is making male loneliness worse, Professor Liberty Vittert says.

AI-powered virtual companions have been on the rise since the pandemic.

Vittert, a data science expert, says some men may choose "perfect" AI relationships over real ones.

Liberty Vittert, a professor of the practice of data science at Olin Business School, always asks her class of mainly 18-year-old students what social-media apps they are using at the start of the year.

She says the question helps her gauge what's popular with young people. So, when one of her male students said he had an AI girlfriend she was taken aback.

"It surprised me that he came out and said it so openly," she told Insider. "I think AI girlfriends have been around for a while but they've become increasingly more mainstream so people are willing to talk about them."

AI virtual companions have been on the rise since the pandemic but recent developments in generative AI have put them in the spotlight.

Replika, a popular app that provides AI-powered digital partners, has surged in popularity in recent years. The app hit more than 10 million users in 2022 after seeing a 35% increase during the global pandemic. In the last year, several Replika users have reported being in love, engaged in an exclusive relationship, or even married to their AI partners.

In May, when Caryn Marjorie created an AI version of herself, which was designed to be a virtual girlfriend, she was flooded with subscribers willing to pay to have a relationship with the bot. Within a week, she had 1,000 paying subscribers and a waitlist of more than 15,000 people.  

Vittert published her thoughts on the phenomenon in an op-ed in The Hill titled, "AI girlfriends are ruining an entire generation of men." The article theorized that the next step is an AI girlfriend that can "meet all of your needs."

"It's not a virtual girlfriend, it's a girlfriend that by definition learns from you, what you like and what you don't like," she said. "The AI girlfriend never has a bad day so these men have these perfect relationships and never have to deal with the ups and the downs of a real relationship."

Vittert says the very nature of an AI girlfriend risks men choosing the bots over a real relationship, which could eventually lead to more single men and affect birth rates in the US.

While virtual partners can be a form of companionship, Vittert says they can also isolate people.

"These AI girlfriends are enabling this silent epidemic of loneliness that we've seen amongst young men," she said, pointing to the higher proportion of single men than women in the US.

"We see females always report having more close friends or having wider groups of friends," Vittert said. "They don't seem to be as psychologically prey to this AI lifestyle as men."

Data from Pew Research Center showed that in 2022, 34% of women were single compared with 63% of men. Men also report having fewer close friends than women, something that worsened during the pandemic.

"The prevalence of these AI girlfriends has increased so dramatically over the past couple of years," Vittert said. "They're also getting advanced quickly.

"We're going from AI girlfriends who you text with to ones you can send pictures with. There's this very quick blend of the physical and the emotional."

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-girlfriends-male-loneliness-epidemic-worse-men-expert-2023-10

MGTOW / INCEL thread!

How does one go about finding an AI gf?  Asking for a friend.

I would put part of the blame of the problems this current generation of men are having on porn and (I guess) AI companions, though I never thought about them till this thread.

I would put most of it on the decades long war on masculinity, me-to movement, favoring of women in divorce courts, favoring of women in schools, LGBTQRS++ shit, single mom households, etc etc.

Porn and AI companions are simply an out that current males have.  

Men don't HAVE to have women anymore, and I can see that pissing off the leftard elite because men don't have the motivation to do what they have done throughout the entire history of the species.

Jesus christ.

Has he seen this current generation of "women"?

If I were younger and single, I just might choose AI too.

What in the actual fuck? Do people really talk to computers?

I do, but only to ask the time/temperature.

Might be better and far less costly than getting bartenders and drunk co-workers pregnant.

"expert"

just pulling shit out of their ass

Do you think every poster on arfcom and twitter is an actual human? Because I've got some new for you...

How good are they at blow jobs?

That will help my vote

In other words, “Research has shown that males are inherently better at interpreting a cost/value analysis”

Are they worried that women will be disempowered by AI GF now?

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I'm willing to give it a try.

You should try it. Not to pick up a new hobby, but just to get a first hand understanding of where the technology is at. It's creepy.
https://beta.character.ai/

Neva been dun befo

Jesus Christ can you fellas imagine how hard core the data mining must be for AI girlfriend Apps?  LMAO.    The system must just be plowing through your data with a fury never seen before.

Back quite a few months the Air Force sent out a Retiree newsletter called "AfterBurner".

Said there's half a million retired USAF, only 1/5th have wives.

Endless wars did more damage than AI could ever do.

Females sit at home with a fist full of cash and something eating thru their pants...

lol endless wars

Like less than .0001% of the population deployed to GWOT.

Welcome to the age of simps and incels.

You can get a Fleshlight and a motorized mount that has a holder for your smartphone with your AI girlfriend on it or whatever porn you prefer…

Apparently, some guys have collections of *dozens* of Fleshlights…



This thread makes a lot more sense now: Nearly HALF of all young men have NEVER approached a woman

More poon for guys who can easily pull poon.

Our country is facing terminal introversion.

The guys that would do this aren’t choosing between this and a real girl.  A real girl was never an option for them to begin with.

You mean more fatties for guys that like being squashed by fatties?

Guessing it will just be a matter of time until the Arfincels start creating 'relationship' threads bitching about these women, too.

So many Losers

Forgot about the married man who killed himself to be with his AI GF?

Fake women are for fake men.
Be a man, enjoy her female scent, enjoy her flirty ass walk, make her never forget you.

THIS!

From the slim bods in Daisy Duke shorts & long nice hair they’ve transmogrified into 5’3” 333# hawgs with blue dyed buzz cuts stuffed into Slav sweat suits. I can only imagine the lack of hygiene down there since they can not see the parts.

I saw this on a Twilight Zone episode….a man sentenced to life alone on a deserted planet was given a robot in the shape of a woman.  When he was granted a pardon, the robot had to be left & the convict couldn’t leave her.

“The Lonely”

"On a microscopic piece of sand that floats through space is a fragment of a man's life. Left to rust is the place he lived in and the machines he used. Without use, they will disintegrate from the wind and the sand and the years that act upon them; all of Mr. Corry's machines--including the one made in his image, kept alive by love, but now obsolete... in the Twilight Zone."

Loved & lost?

Operating system for fleshlight 12.0

These “men” are like children, they live at home, play video games, don’t work, don’t have a car, don’t have a license. They smoke weed all day long and live life like they are still in middle school, I’m not looking to settle down with a “man” that would just end up being a 3rd son for me to raise. I wish men would get their act together. It’s their own fault if they are lonely, there are a lot of women out here that would like to have a man.

Corry!

That type of woman is as common as your typical Arf millionaire 6-6-6.

That's an awfully large brush you have there.

Slight derail, but you might be better off looking for a Brady Bunch situation over trying to find a diamond in the rough among the AI girlfriend type of man.

You’re probably right

Now I want a cheeseburger.

Sure the whole world will suffer but eventually the problem will correct itself.

(overshared )

If I was a pathetic dump paying money for a virtual girlfriend I’d eat my pistol.

This AI girlfriend shit is being pushed by the same people who want sex changes for children.

The goal is to get the population to stop procreating, and it’s working.

Imagine being a single guy in your teens or twenties, and having to find a good chick in a sea of retards who go nuts if you don’t use their preferred pronouns.

It’s not the same people.  

The left hates AI girlfriends because is disempowers women.

Women hate competition

This is the important piece of info from the article:


And no, it's not because of AI girlfriends

Exactly, the feminists said shit like "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle" and thought they were edgy and cool.
Men take the same position and it's scary and a crisis.

It's easy to toss around stereotypes but I suspect there are hundreds of reasons for Men to do this.
Some of it is cost benefit analysis. If my wife were to pre-decease me I'd never remarry. Simply isn't worth it to risk my assets.
Some of it is guys deciding it isn't worth sifting through the haystack to find the needle anymore.

All those soy boys who are afraid to talk to women need something to keep them company while hiding in moms basement making power point presentations on hypergamy.

That ship has sailed a long time ago.