'Obedient, yielding and happy to follow': the troubling rise of AI girlfriends
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- AI-generated girlfriends are becoming increasingly popular on adult dating websites, offering realistic interactions for a monthly fee.
- Developers claim AI girlfriends eliminate exploitation risks seen in traditional webcam businesses, as AI doesn't get tired, sick, or humiliated.
- Users can customize AI companions' professions, personalities, appearances, and even dictate their level of submissiveness or innocence.
- Concerns arise among women's rights campaigners about AI girlfriends reinforcing harmful stereotypes and unrealistic expectations of women.
- AI girlfriend sites leverage advances in large language models and AI image-making, with demand highest among 18-24-year-olds.
- The market for AI relationships is rapidly growing, with new businesses emerging and competing fiercely in the sector.
- AI-generated pornographic content is improving in realism, with developers focusing on natural skin textures and imperfections for higher-quality AI girlfriends.
- Some AI sites license images of real adult performers to create AI twins, providing continuous income without the need for physical shoots.
- Traditional dating sites express concern over AI relationships replacing real human connections, as users may prefer fantasy over reality.
- AI relationships allow users to practice social skills and explore fantasies without real-world consequences, though some behaviors may be abusive if directed at real people.