Using AI to fulfill a need implies a need which usually results in action towards that need. Even "the dating scene is terrible" is human interaction.
For some subset of people, this isn't true. Some people don't end up going on a single date or get a single match. And even for those who get a non-zero number there, that number might still be hovering around 1-2 matches a year and no actual dates.
I am not even talking dates BTW but the pre-cursors to dates.
If you bring up Tinder etc then I would point out that AI has been doing bad things for quite a while obviously.
The former. The latter I find is naught more than a buzz word used to shut down people who complain about a very real problem.
> If you bring up Tinder etc then I would point out that AI has been doing bad things for quite a while obviously.
Clearly. But we've also been cornered into Tinder and other dating apps being one of very few social arenas where you can reasonably expect dating to actually happen.[1] There's also friend circles and other similar close social circles, but once you've exhausted those options, assuming no other possibilities reveal themselves, what else is there? There's uni or collage, but if you're past that time of your life, tough shit I guess. There's work, but people tend to have the sense to not let their love life and their work mix. You could hook up after someone changes jobs, but that's not something that happens every day.
I still don't think an AI partner is a good solution, but you are seriously underestimating how bad the status quo is.
For some people, yes, but 99% of those people are men. The whole "women with AI boyfriends" thing is an entirely different issue.
The "problem" will arise anyway, of course, but as I said, it's a different problem - the women aren't struggling to find dates, they're just choosing not to date the men they find. Even classifying it as a "problem" is arguable.
AI in these cases is just a better 'litter of 50 cats', a better, less-destructive, less-suffering-creating fantasy.
This is true if the alternative to “any interaction” is “no interaction”. Bots alter this, and provide “good interaction”.
In this light, the case for relationship bots is quite strong.
