Uncharted territory: do AI girlfriend apps promote unhealthy expectations for human relationships?::Chatbots such as Eva AI are getting better at mimicking human interaction but some fear they feed into unhealthy beliefs around gender-based control and violence
Hollywood romantic comedies have been promoting unhealthy expectations for human relationships for decades now, so why would AI be all that worse?
The influencer and podcaster stuff seems worse - women really think that $100k is like a minimum salary, the “princess treatment”, etc. - like feminism has changed from being about women being able to contribute to society in the same ways as men (science and engineering, etc.) to insane expectations.
People are claiming that you got it backwards but there are plenty of videos of women repeating the exact claims you made (and 100k is not the average “lowest salary” many say 2-5x that)
I think that its important to acknowledge that there are already many people with unhealthy expectations, men and women.
I would also worry about the privacy aspects, as people tend to reveal pretty personal information to each other inside of relationships. What happens when somebody reveals something illegal to an AI chatbot partner? Suddenly your partner is ratting you out to the cops, which admittedly could happen in real life anyways, but in general how much privacy do you really have. It’s kind of niche audience for now I guess, but I suspect when this function gets merged with RealDoll form factors is when this whole artificial girlfriend will really take off. At that point, when the choice becomes whether you go hunting for a real human girl who is difficult to please, unpredictable, doesn’t always do what you want, doesn’t share all your likes/fetishes, etc VS just getting an AI girlfriend that can be anything you want them to be and won’t say no to anything, I think it’s easy to see the route that many will go.
<insert Futurama ‘Don’t have sex with robots’ video>
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I’d say a closer analogue is fast food. It’s social interaction and companionship with zero effort or barriers. Alone, fast food doesn’t create unhealthy eating habits, but it will lead to more people to develop unhealthy habits.
Most likely not a great idea.
Where are they getting the training data from? If Twitter posts then no one will date the “AI” anyway.
The types of people I’d personally want to date probably don’t give out their data so easy.
Oh replika the app that suddenly went paywalled for any words deemed horny to exploit the horny of their audience
