• AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Lol. Who would want to? The kind of guy who would be satisfied with AI is not someone a woman with the smallest shred of respect would want to be with.

    That’s what these guys don’t realize: being with them is thoroughly worse than being single.

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      9 months ago

      The kind of guy who would be satisfied with AI is not someone a woman with the smallest shred of respect would want to be with.

      This is so goddamn cruel. Are people who are simply just so lonely they need to express their feelings to an AI so undeserving of love that it would feel humiliating to get close to them? I don’t think about women that way.

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      8 months ago

      I’ve heard of a guy who married a hologram app of Hatusne Miku, and it literally turned his life around having anything to talk to.

      The loneliness epidemic is real, and as a former NEET, crippling social anxiety is a killer. Something that can put these vulnerable people in the position where they can function and get though the day is an objective good.

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        8 months ago

        But AI is basically just talking to yourself. It won’t really fix loneliness. All it can be is an illusion. A delusion. And I don’t believe delusions can ever really be an objective good. Need something to talk to? Get a pet. Or a therapist until you can make a real friend.

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          8 months ago

          It won’t fix it, but it can mitigate it to an extent.

          Pets are a expense and a responsibility, with conversations being one sided, so their less than ideal for shut ins who struggle to function to begin with.

          Therapy could help, but is also an expense and still has the barrier of a direct interpersonal interaction.

          Both of these also have the issue of intimacy being non-existent. An AI offers a chance for low stakes, human like interaction that can be intimate.

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            8 months ago

            It doesn’t mitigate it any more than feeding candy or alcohol to starving people mitigates their hunger. It might feel like it does for a time, but the underlying problem is only made worse.

            It’s not an intimate interaction any more than masturbating is intimate.

            And I guarantee AI girlfriends are going to cost, too. Probably way more than therapy.