[ExI] Are AI girlfriends gender neutral?

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 10/11/2025 06:56, spike wrote:
>> ...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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?

Isn't the solution obvious?

Men have traditionally lied to their wimmenfolk since the dawn of time. 
All you need to do is extend this time-honoured tradition to the 
technological equivalents, and you have deniability. You tell different 
lies to different AI girlfriends and mistresses (or even the same one, 
at least until they start getting memories), nobody is harmed and nobody 
can blackmail you, because who knows which lies are true and which are, 
er, lies

To answer the subject line's question: No, they aren't gender-neutral, 
or they'd be called 'AI personfriends', surely? Or, to go with the trend 
of clumsy but PC phrases, "AI romantic partners"

-- 
Ben

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