[ExI] Are AI girlfriends gender neutral?

[spike at rainier66.com]

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Subject: [ExI] Are AI girlfriends gender neutral?

On Sat, 8 Nov 2025 at 16:16, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> I am seeing something I am finding most disconcerting.  I work with young people a lot because of my volunteer work: food bank, scouts, science Olympiad and competition math.  The high schoolers surprise me with their attitudes: they seem nearly indifferent to copulation.  It is so different from when I was their age half a century ago.  Eeeeeeverything was about getting laid, everything.  Now, it’s meh, whatevs.  Maybe, maybe not.
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> spike
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>...AI girlfriends are a huge growth market. $2.8 billion in 2024 and projected to hit $9.5 billion by 2028, signifying explosive growth.
28% of males aged 18 to 34 have tried an AI girlfriend app.
At present, there is little interest from the ladies in having an AI boyfriend.
BillK

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Good point.  I am a suspicious sort, so I would be most reluctant.  Reason: the AI could store everything, and at some point tell you that if you wish for everything you told her to be kept quiet, that could be arranged if you were to send a tenth of a BitCoin to Mr. Chang.

The product of the future is an AI girlfriend which works on a stand-alone device which is not capable of transmitting what you told her.

In modern relationships, one never knows if the other partner will get annoyed and post to TwitterX everything you told her online.  That would be bad.  I got lucky that way: I met my bride in 1981, and we only used email a few times before we were already delightfully entangled.  So she never did that to me.  Perhaps plenty of men think it isn't worth the risk.

BillK and other AI hipsters please: AI needs to interact with the internet, ja?  So a completely independent AI... we are not there yet.  So any time one has an AI girlfriend, the stuff you wrote to it could theoretically be held hostage, ja?

spike