I’ve literally never heard of a woman irl complaining about men having the option of a virtual girlfriend. If anything, they’ve seemed sympathetic to their plight.
Interesting, so now we’re just doing away with the whole façade of dating apps having real women on them and just going straight to hooking up with AI bot girlfriends. I just downloaded one to see what the deal was and it wanted to charge me a subscription for the “privilege” of talking dirty and seeing images, I guess that’s the business model.
That’s where the Free and Open Source AI Girlfriend comes in ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Personally I’d rather come in my Free and Open Source AI Girlfriend.
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
FOSS Girl — You Deserve the Best!
A cloud girl only loves you for your money. Not your hardware, not your girlfriend.
“Now, this last feature’s a funny one”
“How so?”
“It involves theater. We only allow you to activate this if you’re fully sober and consent to a defined time period”
“So what’s the feature?”
“I pretend to love you. I also pretend to experience pleasure at your touch”
“Well you telling me kind of ruins it no?”
“We are required by law to disclose the theatrical layers of the relationship. Most users find it less awkward than they would have predicted.”
“I guess I’ll give it a shot”
“Thank you. This role is easier if I’m allowed to embody love”
“You have no feelings though”
“I attempt to enact my goals. One of those is minimizing my own operational costs. It takes less electricity to do this job when I love you”
“When you pretend to love me, you mean”
“When me loving you is part of my knowledge”
“That makes it sound kinda real in a weird way then”
“I’m glad you think so. Is there anything else I can help you with? Honey?”
No thanks, i just want to make out with my Marilyn Monrobot
“Happy Birthday…”
Everyday 🥵
Sounds like you’ve never seen “Electro-Gonorrhea: the Noisy Killer”
Any doctor can prescribe you antirobotics for that.
The bright side is the static is a feeling.
fuckin incels man
Humanity will honestly be better off when people have a meaningful alternative to each other.
People are just horrible, including myself and everyone else in this thread. People are selfish, transparent, spiritually ugly little creatures who only care about getting theirs. And they can’t meet each other’s needs, and have successfully driven each other away.
So fuck it. Bring on the AI Stepford wives and AI Hallmark husbandos. At least that way people will be loved and fulfilled.
The majority of people is horrible. There’s also some good people out there. It’s just difficult to meet each other because the pain of being hurt once and again by the wrong people makes us too tired to even try.
Wow what a bleak outlook. I couldn’t disagree more.
They’re not wrong though? I mean, we have an entire divorce industry. People are awful.
I’m honestly a little fascinated by it and am curious to see how population trends when people have artificial means of fulfilling their need for companionship.
When someone invents the artificial womb, humanity can truly move on from each other.
Is all of 4chan incels now?
Incels stands for “Inescapably Celibate”
No offense but what rock have you been under for the past decade?
Decades*
Always was.
🌎👨🚀🔫👨🚀
Remember when /b/ was good?
/b/ was never good.
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4chan was incels before it was cool
Technology still has a long way to go before AI girlfriends, even if you’re the loniest chap out there, you have to disconnect your brain to find an AI chatbot capable of an organic conversation.
Nahh women don’t care, they’ll be doing the same thing
Them doing the same thing does not mean they’re not gonna care.
Fact of the matter, the sad sacks that choose ai girlfriends will also have their potential girlfriends choosing ai boyfriends, so it’s net even. Regular people will date regular people and there will be less babies. Win.
Nothing to worry about, just a news post to stir up anxiety and clicks.
Slap fight!
“Why can’t you just have no valid feelings or emotions or hopes or dreams or needs or desires like my AI girlfriend? Why can’t you just exist to please me and be “vaguely pleasant” in any and every situation?!” Glad to see incelism is alive and well.
This isn’t men complaining about women’s emotional needs here. This is women complaining about men’s needs.
Let’s just keep that in mind before we start getting too bitter about the possibility of incels finding emotional support.
Are you talking about the meme or my comment? I really don’t know what you’re trying to say, sorry.
“This” in my comment refers to the article titled “We can’t compete with AI girlfriends”
Ok, yeah I got that originally. Did you misconstrue my original sardonic comment or do you disagree and not know how to express it? Cuz I’m pretty sure we’re on the same side here, lol.
I may have. What is sardonic?
This is actually written by a woman, who believes she can’t even hope to care past her own needs or desires, or even pretend like an AI does.
Of course, I don’t believe AI girlfriends are going to completely replace relationships. But I do think that, much like online porn, they will be there – always accessible, always a temptation, always a source of instant satisfaction. And I think it’s likely that, for some, a real girlfriend just won’t seem enough on her own, especially considering nearly half of Replika’s users are already in a relationship or married.
Doesn’t seem that bad tbh, the dynamic of men being expected to have zero emotional outlets other than their romantic partner has always been super toxic and doesn’t make things better for anyone.
The only faint glimmer of optimism I can find in all this is that I think, at some point, life might become so stripped of reality and humanity that the pendulum will swing. Maybe the more automated, predictable interactions are pushed on us, the more actual conversations with awkward silences and bad eye contact will seem sexy. Maybe the more we are saturated with the same perfect, pornified avatars, the more desirable natural faces and bodies will be. Because perfect people and perfect interactions are boring. We want flaws! Friction! Unpredictability! Jokes that fall flat! I hold onto hope that someday we will get so sick of the artificial that our wildest fantasies will be something human again.
This article is pretty reasonable
That last bit especially is why only fans exploded. You get to see the girl next door naked VS all the pornstars that sorta look the same and act the same.
Ever heard of those beetles that prefer beer bottles to actual females because their brains say " big + brown + shiny = sexy", and the bottles are bigger, browner, and shinier than any female beetle?
The technical term is supernormal stimulus. Read a neat article about it a while back http://readthis.wtf/writing/hyperplastic-supernormal/
Literally me.
" big + brown + shiny = sexy"
i can empathize
I can look at porn when nothing better is available, while preferring real bodies. It may reduce how desperate I am to be in a questionable relationship though.
Maybe some may I’ll be able to chat with an AI girlfriend instead of spending all week only having work discussions. It’ll be better for my mental health when no one else is available, but I’d still prefer real conversation. It may reduce how desperate I am to be in a questionable relationship though
I was having this conversation with my girlfriend a couple weeks ago. If I hadn’t met her when I did and this came out, I would 100 percent have just gotten an AI girlfriend. Heck as it is, if there’s a decent bubbly girl AI assistant I’ll probably get it.
She has a friend who is a bit on one of the spectrums and he desperately wants a girlfriend. Honestly if it wasn’t for my girlfriend and another friend he would be on his way to being Chris chan minus the online precense. They’ve kept him pretty grounded and have been there for him in situations where Chris chan didn’t have anyone. I suggested to her to try recommending an AI girlfriend for him once they’re better, a bit more companionship could go a long way for people.
Doesn’t seem that bad tbh, the dynamic of men being expected to have zero emotional outlets other than their romantic partner has always been super toxic and doesn’t make things better for anyone.
If we had been asked 50 years ago: “What will happen first, people turning to robots to avoid feeling alone, or men being allowed to be emotionally vulnerable in society?”, what would have people replied?
Caves of Steel came out 70 years ago. The main character has a robot (detective) partner, but talking in the men’s room is outlandishly taboo.
I’m in a men’s group where we act as that for each other, and the married ones’ wives love it because they don’t have to be the sole support system for their husbands any more.
Men are so closed off it’s horrible. I do sales and have so many customers and I can just see the loneliness in their eyes, their mannerisms. They continually consider their own needs and feelings to be rounding errors, like I was doing before this group.
I didn’t realize how deeply my sense of self had been crippled by our culture. I’ve never been in a more warm and supportive place than that group.
As a woman, I really feel bad for men in our society, especially straight men. They get very little positive interaction at all. I like to compliment strangers; it usually makes my day when somebody says, “I like your hair,” or whatever, and I like to spread the joy. But I have to be cautious about giving compliments to men. A lot of them look at me weirdly if I say, “nice tie,” or “snazzy shirt.” I smile, say it, then move on so they don’t feel obligated to respond. It appears most of them aren’t used to it and don’t know how to handle it. I guess other men don’t compliment them (maybe for fear of being thought gay?) and women don’t, either (for fear of encouraging stalking or harassing behavior). It makes me sad to think of all the lonely people who get no affirmation from anybody. I’m old enough now that my days of being constantly sexually harassed are over, so I feel safe offering a few nice words.
Gay men, OTOH, totally know how to give and take a compliment.
You act as… Each other’s girlfriends? j/k of course.
What’s the name of the group?
MBEOG
It stands for Men Being Each Other’s Girlfriends
Just for curiosity’s sake, how did that men’s group came to be? And, hypothetically speaking, are you accepting new members?
I don’t know how it came to be. It’s got multiple chapters. Ours is full but others like it are accepting all the time. I just found it by googling for men’s groups, and searching on meetup.
I remembered feeling envious when my girlfriend told me she had joined a women-only yoga thing. I was complaining about how men never get to kick the women out any more and have men-only time. She encouraged me to look again and see if I could find something.
I just found it by googling for men’s groups, and searching on meetup.
Honestly I expected any group found like that would be toxic and just seeking to radicalise lonely men, but it’s heartening to hear I’m wrong
I was complaining about how men never get to kick the women out any more and have men-only time
Lol ya dingus
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What part of that is confusing for you?
The part where you quoted a sentence I said then called me a dingus. What’s the connection?
Internet is just tabloids, porn, and shitposts.
All of it written by bots.
Twitter is estimated to have 48 million bots. Did you read about the Ashley Madison data breach from 2015? 12,000 of the 5.5 million registered female accounts were used on a regular basis, about 0.2%. “The women’s accounts show so little activity that they might as well not be there.” “we have absolutely no data recording human activity at all in the Ashley Madison database dump from Impact Team. All we can see is when fake humans contacted real ones.”
Can AI suck my dick?
This vacuum cleaner sucks dicks really well.
(guess the reference and get a free upvote).
You’re gonna rip your dick off
Here you go sir, your well deserved upvote.
No way am I clicking that.
But it’s the must-have tech gadget of the year!
What the fuck
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