Your comments in the replies seem to reject that these men are suffering. No, obviously they are.
I didn’t deny that some people actually suffer (probably big portion of them are clinically depressed, though, so would “qualify” to use AI partners before 30 in my proposal), I just said that it’s by no means normal to suffer if you just don’t have a romantic partner, but otherwise your life is “ok”. See this comment.
This perverted strategy of ameliorating symptoms of problems (such as social media, problems with (sexual) self-image and expectations, “dating market”, social isolation, etc.) because it will provide a constant stream of $$$, instead of treating the root causes, is what bugs me.
I’m far from convinced that “society” (represented by payment providers) already decided to ban sex bots. It doesn’t make much sense, given that payment providers do serve porn industry, OnlyFans, etc. Maybe the issue was that character.AI didn’t clearly market itself as “adult startup” and didn’t impose age restrictions, and providers saw potential legal risks with this?
I generally worry much less about hardcore enthusiasts to develop and host open-source waifus, of course fundamentally this cannot be banned, but the potential reach of these will be an order or two orders of magnitude smaller than easy-to-use mobile app. I don’t worry about society-scale effects from people using open-source waifus.
I didn’t deny that some people actually suffer (probably big portion of them are clinically depressed, though, so would “qualify” to use AI partners before 30 in my proposal), I just said that it’s by no means normal to suffer if you just don’t have a romantic partner, but otherwise your life is “ok”. See this comment.
This perverted strategy of ameliorating symptoms of problems (such as social media, problems with (sexual) self-image and expectations, “dating market”, social isolation, etc.) because it will provide a constant stream of $$$, instead of treating the root causes, is what bugs me.
I’m far from convinced that “society” (represented by payment providers) already decided to ban sex bots. It doesn’t make much sense, given that payment providers do serve porn industry, OnlyFans, etc. Maybe the issue was that character.AI didn’t clearly market itself as “adult startup” and didn’t impose age restrictions, and providers saw potential legal risks with this?
I see https://www.evaapp.ai/ is growing, https://caryn.ai/ is growing, they aren’t getting banned.
I generally worry much less about hardcore enthusiasts to develop and host open-source waifus, of course fundamentally this cannot be banned, but the potential reach of these will be an order or two orders of magnitude smaller than easy-to-use mobile app. I don’t worry about society-scale effects from people using open-source waifus.