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

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.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-girl ... rt-2023-10

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Fascinating???!