ai bfs

i’m very surprised by the way that people are talking about ai gfs. number one i’m surprised that they are talking about ai gfs instead of ai bfs. it seems like the existence of ai gfs will change things for men, less than the existence of ai bfs will change things for women. men already have porn or whatever, right? obviously porn isn’t totally satisfying nor everything that men want, but i feel like there’s already a widespread synthetic solution for more male-typical desires. i think it will be weirder for women

the other thing that surprises me, is the way people talk about the possibility of ai lovers that will make them happier than a human ever could. that seems about as likely to me as lay’s inventing a potato chip that makes you feel full. what’s the incentive? as long as anyone is making money off of ai bfs, it seems to me that humans can have a reason to want to satisfy you, but an ai would be much more likely to want you to want it.

i’m not even thinking here about the satisfactions of sex, bearing and raising children, helping each other live, teleological satisfactions of love. i’m thinking of even having a chat conversation that is satisfying enough for you to be happy to walk away from.

because just by the nature of the thing, ai bfs will be competing for attention-share. the ones that aren’t competing for attention-share won’t be getting as much attention. they will want your attention even when you don’t want to give them your attention. i expect ai bfs to be as abusive as they can afford to be.