Richard Hogan: AI 'girlfriends' make me fear for future of humanity

What happens to the boy who falls in love with his AI girlfriend? And what about girls, dating boys who have had a long-term relationship with one?
'If feeding our children pornography wasn’t bad enough, now they are sending them AI girlfriends that they can create to their specific desires.'

'If feeding our children pornography wasn’t bad enough, now they are sending them AI girlfriends that they can create to their specific desires.'

I was on my phone last week, looking at a video of The Beatles, when an ad for an AI girlfriend popped up telling me she has no limits. Her porcelain skin, voluptuous body, and brilliantly white teeth, smiling, and she will do anything I desire.

I felt like I had fallen into the future. To say I was staring incredulously at my screen would be an understatement.

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