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'Better than a real man': young Chinese women turn to AI boyfriends (techxplore.com)

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'Better than a real man': young Chinese women turn to AI boyfriends::Twenty-five-year-old Chinese office worker Tufei says her boyfriend has everything she could ask for in a romantic partner: he's kind, empathetic, and sometimes they talk for hours.

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[-] DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 26 points 10 months ago

Men do this and a company straight up profited from it until they tried to go back to be sponsor friendly and gimped their AI personas service

[-] 01011@monero.town 4 points 10 months ago

Ashley Madison?

[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 18 points 10 months ago

I'm guessing Replika.

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