Most Men Would Marry Their AI Girlfriends If It Were Legal (vice.com) 64
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VICE News: EVA AI, a platform allowing you to create and connect with your own AI partner, recently surveyed 2,000 men and found that 8 in 10 would consider marrying an AI girlfriend if it were legal. Not only that, but 83% of men also believe they could form a deep emotional bond with an AI girlfriend. What's even scarier is that a whopping 78% of men surveyed said they would consider creating a replica of their ex, and three-quarters would duplicate their current partner to create a "polished" version of them. "AI companionship allows people to be their authentic selves without fear of judgment," said Cale Jones, head of community growth at EVA AI. "It creates a safe space to explore thoughts, emotions, and desires that might feel too vulnerable to share in real life. The benefits extend far beyond the virtual world: one EVA AI user discovered her bisexuality through this platform -- something she previously felt too insecure to explore in real life."
Holy selection bias batman (Score:5, Interesting)
Survey was run by an AI company. Occam's razor says the result is heavily influenced by selection bias.
Re: Holy selection bias batman (Score:1)
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But in addition to selection bias, most modern women are undateable. They accept nothing less than the top 10% of men, expect the princess treatment, contribute nothing to the relationship beyond their appearance.
A somewhat recent (2020) Pew report [pewresearch.org] says that even in the 18-29 age group, 49% of men and 68% of women are partnered (married or otherwise with a partner). Furthermore, as people age, the percentage of single people decrease (except for 65+ women that are widowed). That is, most women find a partner. And actually most men also find a partner.
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They act that way with men who let women walk all over them. Treat them like shit. It takes less than a handful of dates to knock a woman like that on her ass. Give it a few months and with a bit of work you can turn most of those women into a decent girlfriend. You pump & dump the ones that
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Sorry no, you can't turn a gold digging gutter shore into a Disney princess.
And why would you want to deal with someone that requires being treated like shit anyway?
The last girl who told me, "You handle me so well" was such a pita, I dumped her a few months later even though I "handled her really well". Who needs that?
The next two girls were both really sweet, did not require special "handling" and I kept one of them. Haven't had to "handle" her once.
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No. But a decent piece of ass you can enjoy for a while -- I would say yes as I've done it.
It's not even dealing with them. It's just like any other form of hunting. Sometimes you want a bit of a challenge.
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What makes you think they're switching partners and not stalking victims? I can't imagine a woman with any self-worth voluntarily touching someone with an attitude that disgusting.
No, what you're seeing here is a typical sexless incel trying to score internet cred with other equally sexless incels. They honestly don't know that anyone capable of attracting the attention of a woman, and winning her affection, has no need to brag about their imaginary exploits on internet message boards.
"Oh, yeah, bro! I g
Re: You bet. (Score:2)
Re: You bet. (Score:5, Informative)
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Let me make a wild guess. Your relationships didn't turn out well but none of it was your fault?
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Survey was run by an AI company. Occam's razor says the result is heavily influenced by selection bias.
Not only that, but such a survey is sort of silly in the first place. The easiest thing for the AI company is to just make up the results. Same results, same effect, much easier to do, no way to tell the difference.
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Note that when the replication crisis hit. No one even offered the explanation of “Hmm, maybe it's not reproducible because they made up their data, and we should start an investigation?
Because the elephant in the room was that everyone already know a large portion of scientific data wouldn't be reproducible. There's something very wrong when the first instinct at a lack of reproduction is “It can happen.” rather than “Fraud is at play.”.” If it “can simply happen
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Even without that. Consider that pretty much no survey one will ever read about ever does not have a huge selection bias in it.
Even if they went through all the difficulties of trying to at least randomly select people from the population, and of course, when going with addresses and calling people, one won't get the homeless. There is still the obvious problem that people can't be forced, so one selects upon “being willing to donate one's time” which no correlates with many other factors of cou
No they wouldn't. (Score:4, Interesting)
Why marry an obedient, subservient thing that has no legal rights, especially one that's a virtual thing... and then endure social pariah status from their peers.
If the claim is that number was any higher than 1/10 and the survey pool was not "men who have never gone outside and met a real woman", and they weren't laughing as they answered, I'm going to call bullshit. An epic, mountain-high pile of bullshit.
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Why marry an obedient, subservient thing that has no legal rights,
I don't know you would have to ask the Republican party and the Christian nationalists that run it.
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What the hell are you going on about? You're the one who blames republicans because your life savings still isn't enough for a realdoll.
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The qualifier here seems to be "if it were legal". Legal meaning incurring some benefits, chief among them tax benefits. Shit, if I could get the tax breaks that come with marriage without having to assume the financial risk of divorce, sign me up. Not that I'd ever do anything with it, but last I checked that's not a requirement for marriage. Most people would lose their shit if their taxes as a percentage of their liquid income were as high as mine are.
Tax benefits are literally the one and only interest
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>only interest I have in marriage at all. It seems so pointless otherwise. Its practical usefulness ended after the industrial revolution.
I'd say starting around 1948, at least in the West. Prior to that it was still pretty damn devastating to be a single non-virginal woman, or worse, a single mother, unless you enjoyed poverty. At least after that women could start to get jobs that paid decently and not have to look at marriage as their primary means of survival.
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It wasn't a normal survey, they got the AI to ask.
"Hey baby, how are you tonight?"
"I'm good baby. Want to get into something more comfortable?"
"Oh, do I ever! Just one thing first... if you could, would you marry me baby?"
"Uh, yeah, yeah, of course."
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Re: Most Men? (Score:2)
In other news, "most men" would have several girlfriends, if the option is open to them... and not marry any of them.
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So, it's all about sex, not commitment and responsibility, got it. Love, especially philia love, is not important: Got it.
Deal with it.
As long as you approve, you mean.
FIX YOUR SHIT.
Translation: It's the mans' fault.
This, and things like it, are a bug, not a feature (Score:1)
AI companionship allows people to be their authentic selves without fear of judgment
The problem is that people's "authentic" self is almost always a euphemism for "unfiltered" or "unpolished" self. The reason we feel shame of judgement as a negative emotion is that it keeps us in line and acting like adults rather than self-absorbed hedonistic man-children.
Holding one's tongue, lending a helping hand, volunteering to do the unglamorous part of the job, shouldering a burden...these little anti-egotistic behaviors are the glue that holds the gears of society together.
Technological, chemical,
Don’t date robots (Score:3)
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It's a shame they didn't show the next few frames, where Fry is making out with his robot instead of watching the propaganda.
I got to say though, after watching that video, it makes some really good points. Why would we bother if we had our own self-cleaning Marylin Monroe bot? You would still have friends but not a romantic one.
Really, mixing sex and money is a terrible idea and that's what modern marriage is. A terrible idea. I say this but I'll probably do it again one day but it still a terrible idea!
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And the most important point which the Fururama PR clip left out: Men who don't date women are depriving those women of the opportunity to have a divorce. What a bunch of insensitive cads!
Re: Don't date robots (Score:3)
According to several publicly traded companies, AI agents are not "bots", so it's all okay! :thumbs up:
Shouldn't that be most men who HAVE ai girlfriends (Score:1)
Do most men even have AI girlfriends (or boyfriends) in the 1st place? The headline is designed to scare, not inform.
Most men? BS (Score:4, Insightful)
A company that offers AI girlfriends says 80% of its customers would marry their AI girlfriend if they could. This is not "most men". This is a majority opinion of the incredibly small minority of men who actually pay for an AI girlfriend.
They don't define "if they could". Did they mean if the AI girlfriend was a real person? This is basically asking if they would ever get married if they met their dream partner. Not exactly revealing information.
This "report" was 100% advertising PR. What's next, a Slashdot story on how 9 out of 10 dentists recommend sugarless gum?
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What's next, a Slashdot story on how 9 out of 10 dentists recommend sugarless gum?
Or a story on how 9 out of 10 men prefer women -- real or artificial -- with large breasts.
And the 10th guy prefers the 9 other men.
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I suspect there's also the presumption of a physical sex toy in that too. "Cherry 2000" anyone?
Checking the date... (Score:2)
...nope, not April 1
Must be a more obscure holiday celebrating the absurd
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No anonymous coward? I disrespect your opinion, but I respect your bravery.
Also, “hypergamy” is such a dumb meme term. It's just a special term for “Wanting the best one can have in relationship.”, yes, obviously, everyone wants the best he can have in every single thing ever and settles out of lack of being able to get it. I too would like the latest amazing graphics card, trifold phone and whatever fancy clothes money can buy, but I don't have the money for that, so I settle for wh
Marry someone else's property? (Score:2)
Not most men (Score:2)
This is not "most men". This is "most of the subset of men who were desperate enough to sign up for an AI girlfriend."
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where they told no citizenship from that? (Score:2)
where they told no citizenship from that?
This story is complete, total, obvious bullhit. (Score:2)
So why is it here?
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We have stories on LLMs, crapto, people that think they can go to Mars and other bullshit here. This one does not even stand out that much.
Why Buy the Cow When You're . . . Huh? (Score:2)
EVA AI Plans Pricing
1 Month Plan
$13.99 per Month
3 Month Plan
$7 per month for 3 months
12 Month Plan
$4 per month if paid for 12 Months
What happens when your subscription ends? (Score:2)
It depends (Score:2)
Does this hypothetical AI girlfriend make more money than me, enough for me to be a stay-at-home husband?
We already can assume she's better looking and of a higher social status than me. So income is the only check box left for the ideal wife.
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Give me a humanoid robot that can do all the chores around the house, keep up a conversation on a variety of topics, and has incredible sexual skills programmed into it, and my wife and I are gonna have a bit of a talk.
But I guess she can have her male sexbot, so it'll all probably work out OK.
Better get those brains and personalities girls, Q (Score:1)
Not marry, but.. (Score:2)
I wouldn't mind having a companion around with intelligence to converse with, whether analog or digital*.
Digital would be cheaper.
*Still waiting for the I in AI to mean actually highly intelligent.
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Actual general intelligence in there? Sure. Would be great as an assistant and sounding board. As long as it is not a service but runs on my own hardware. But I do not expect that to become possible in the next few decades.
is this thing internet-connected? (Score:1)
The mothership is already tapping into their conversations
Bullshit report is bullshit (Score:2)
Having an "AI girlfriend" already makes them not "most men". This report is nonsense.
On the other hand, if that is what works for these people, sure no issue. Kink-shaming is lame and shows deep personal insecurity.
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People are retarded. More news at ten.