I hate to break it to them but that's not a reason people would stop fucking - it's a consequence.

Here in the States, AI romance is one of the few AI services common shlubs will pay for. Most users only use their free token allotment. Otherwise it's businesses that buy tokens and drive AI profits.

And US AI offerings are still plummeting into debt, so any service that makes money is welcome. So far, AI workforce replacement costs more than human workers (by far) and does a poorer job most of the time. Hence Doctorow's notion of a reverse centaur, the human employee that checks the machine's work (rather than the machine checking and augmenting human work).

Also here in the States we have a culture war. Manosphere men (Incels, MGTOW, seduction culture, alpha males, etc.) vote Republican, so influencers get infused with billionaire money. But women (even conservative women) find them insufferable. The battle of the sexes, like the war against trans folk, immigrants and libs serves to distract people away from class consciousness.

Zoomers are not having sex compared to prior generations at the same age, and an AI companion might be a serviceable substitute. They were already taking on waifus anyway.

The affordability crisis, poor job growth and poorer upward mobility also informs the lowest fertility rate in US history (below 1.6 which some think is critical). To be fair, US fertility has been below replacement for decades, and we made it up with immigration.

And it's the ownership class most frightened by depopulation. Curiously they keep making policy decisions that are downright anti-natal.

It's cause young Chinese men don't fuck.

And you killed all the little girls decades ago.

It seems like one of the few upsides of the planet killing plagiarism machine is that it is bringing back forms of unnatural selection we could probably use before hitting full idiocracy.

Iʻm no wizard of number words, but I think the declining birth rate there might have something to do with the decades of one-child policy that wound up favoring male children...

Who the fuck romancing AI? I guess this is new low for humankind, don't blame me if someday we got doomed because of it.

Ah yes, those people are totally start going out and fucking as much as possible. It's not like that is a symptom of a more general social issue, that has been getting worse way before LLMs were popular. And it is also not that people will develop relationships with all sorts of inanimate objects and concepts to cope with reality. The problem was just the AI guys, yay pat yourself in the back

Downloads an ai chat bot

None of this shit in China

What does chud even mean anymore

It's a slippery slope for any repressive government. Isolate people so they can't revolt, but don't overdo it because birth rates will decline after a certain point.

Doing the "right" thing for a very wrong reason is still wrong.

There are legitimate reasons to be skeptical, but the state has no right to your children.

Don’t see a source on this bc shitpost but tbf I don’t think most people want kids in a world that’s actively burning down lmao

Also isn’t China’s youth unemployment rate something like 20%?

I’m sure it’s not great in other countries either but yeah think I remember reading about the “lay flat” movement (kind of like quiet quitting/job finding struggles in the US)