It feels like AI girlfriends will be closer to an extrapolation of streamers whose primary business model is offering a long-term parasocial relationship with a charming/friendly/likable person who is also attractive. There’s already some scarcity there, and there’s always on some level the awareness that most interactions are public and shared with the rest of the chat. AI girlfriends offer that without the boundaries that human streamers in that genre need to maintain. It’s still overall the same long-term trend, but that’s probably going to create more of an increase than simply “virtual sex with AI” would.
It feels like AI girlfriends will be closer to an extrapolation of streamers whose primary business model is offering a long-term parasocial relationship with a charming/friendly/likable person who is also attractive. There’s already some scarcity there, and there’s always on some level the awareness that most interactions are public and shared with the rest of the chat. AI girlfriends offer that without the boundaries that human streamers in that genre need to maintain. It’s still overall the same long-term trend, but that’s probably going to create more of an increase than simply “virtual sex with AI” would.