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'Better than a real man': young Chinese women turn to AI boyfriends (techxplore.com)
submitted 9 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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'Better than a real man': young Chinese women turn to AI boyfriends::Twenty-five-year-old Chinese office worker Tufei says her boyfriend has everything she could ask for in a romantic partner: he's kind, empathetic, and sometimes they talk for hours.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago (4 children)

If men did this they would be labeled pathetic...

[–] TheGrandNagus 58 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

You're 100% correct lol. Men who do this are roundly mocked and called sad creepy incels.

That said, the culture and dating scene for women in China is pretty awful. My ex was Chinese and had some awful dating stories, now she avoids dating Chinese men. Easy for her to do as she left china, but not everybody can/wants to.

We need to learn to be a little less mean to anybody who uses these apps. They're likely doing it because they see little alternative, yet still want affection. Calling them losers, be they male or female, achieves nothing other than hurting them.

[–] agent_flounder 15 points 9 months ago

Only thing it does is makes mean people feel better about themselves by punching down.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Men do this and a company straight up profited from it until they tried to go back to be sponsor friendly and gimped their AI personas service

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ashley Madison?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

I'm guessing Replika.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Aren't we already with this? I never see anyone going "You go queen!" over someone's virtual bf

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

This is relatively novel, give it time…

I did see that response to “sologamy” articles - women marrying themselves.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

We do and it is.