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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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[–] 01011@monero.town 48 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If men did this they would be labeled pathetic...

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You're 100% correct lol. Men who do this are roundly mocked and called sad creepy incels.

That said, the culture and dating scene for women in China is pretty awful. My ex was Chinese and had some awful dating stories, now she avoids dating Chinese men. Easy for her to do as she left china, but not everybody can/wants to.

We need to learn to be a little less mean to anybody who uses these apps. They're likely doing it because they see little alternative, yet still want affection. Calling them losers, be they male or female, achieves nothing other than hurting them.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Only thing it does is makes mean people feel better about themselves by punching down.

[–] DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

I'm guessing Replika.

[–] InfiniWheel@lemmy.one 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aren't we already with this? I never see anyone going "You go queen!" over someone's virtual bf

[–] 01011@monero.town 2 points 1 year ago

This is relatively novel, give it time…

I did see that response to “sologamy” articles - women marrying themselves.

[–] Arcane_Trixster@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

We do and it is.