People in 2024 aren’t just swiping right and left on online dating apps — some are crafting their perfect AI match and entering relationships with chatbots.
Eric Schmidt, Google’s former CEO, recently shared his concerns about young men creating AI romantic partners and said he believes that AI dating will actually increase loneliness.
“This is a good example of an unexpected problem of existing technology,” Schmidt said in a conversation about AI dangers and regulation on “The Prof G Show” with Scott Galloway released Sunday.
Schmidt said an emotionally and physically “perfect” AI girlfriendcould create a scenario in which a younger male becomes obsessed and allows the AI to take over their thinking.
“That kind of obsession is possible,” Schmidt said in the interview. “Especially for people who are not fully formed.”
clickbait bullshit jfc
Eriction Problems Schmidt says that he wish he would be young again.
Wish he would fuck off along with the rest of the CEO class .
You know, the way this toxic bro culture has evolved, let them build their own romantic partners if actual human women aren’t good enough for them.
Personally, I love my authentic, human, beautiful complicated and unusual wife. I didn’t get to create her, but I’ve gotten to spend almost 20 years figuring her out and it’s been pretty great.
What if it’s the other way around – you’re not good enough for actual human women?
Yeah I can’t imagine wanting perfect and take over the weird dweeb I managed to fall in love with.
But that would require personal work and growth on my part! Joke
I don’t fuck with AI chat bots but I got a he’ll of a lot less lonely when I stopped giving a fuck if I had a girlfriend or not. Giving people alternatives to the toxic dating culture of today may not be such a bad thing.
Yeah, I fuckin love being alone, living alone, not talking to people. I’m alone a lot, but I’m not lonely. There’s a big difference
The real question is are sex dolls good enough? Because you cannot have sex with an AI girlfriend.
Phone sex is sex. Phone sex with an ai is still sex.
More specifically, physical sex.
My phone only has one hole and it’s way too small for me to use that way.
Your mileage may vary though, I don’t judge.
your phone probably has a haptic vibrator though…
Not now
I don’t think this is a problem specific to men or adults primarily but children growing up with them. That is if they’ll continue to improve drastically which won’t necessarily happen.
eric schmidt needs to take a dirt nap already
I think it spells more trouble for young women
How?
They are more prone to emotional and mental disregulation than boys.
casually looks at male suicide rate
Not all mental illness manifest as suicide. I would have thought that obvious.
The data on OCD, anxiety, self harm, eating disorders are all there for anyone who is interested and if anyone wants to discuss mental health in young people, especially in women, I’m here.
If you want to make it a game of boys v girls downvoting, you can all fuck off and come back when you’ve grown up.
Have you heard of the manosphere?
When a mental health issue affects men and women equally you end up with more women at the doctor and more men dead.
But that’s besides the point. Schmidt is calling out his concern for young men in particular because I think he knows a thing or too about what people google and what obsessive behaviours they can fall into especially regarding sexual fantasy.
He already has a front row seat to stats on porn addiction and how this fuels male isolation in particular. If you read the article you’ll see it cites an example of a young boy committing suicide through his romantic interactions with a chatbot.
Women are exposed to impossible beauty standards and have higher anxiety, OCD and other disorders than men. But Schmidt isn’t referring to that.
Men are lonely, have lower life satisfaction, and are far more likely to get sexually addicted to increasingly sophisticated immersive porn.
well, considering dating is usually couple’s activity, it spells trouble for all of them.
Are the young people who can afford dating in the room with you? Can they hear us? Lol
They’d be better off without the guys that fall for this shit. This would be a positive for them.
“Unexpected”
@Stopthatgirl7 lol. can anything come close to the real thing? while knowing it’s a simulacra?
Guys is there a way to use complex filtering on the Boost app. Maybe a regex? I wanna be able to filter all headlines that include the phrase Google CEO unless it also contains the phrase ‘head explodes’.
If(match(/.*(Google CEO).*(head explodes).*/gi,title_text)){pass}It’s beyond me that anyone understands this stuff.
It just filters for anything “Google CEO” anything “head explodes” anything1. However, this alone won’t help since you will also need another rule that doesn’t let anything pass that contains just “Google CEO” with a lower priority.
1 Except newlines
I’m not sure one of the most evil people on earth is in a position to be dictating human values to anyone.
I want to see the unfolding of a scorching romance between two partners, each not knowing that the other is an AI.
New on NBC this spring. Tune in for the drama. AI vs AI Romance Island Server Room.
Here’s is a movie plot for you
Two sentient AI forces into the industry of artificial partners meet and develop human emotions
Fill in the gaps
The problem is that I’m really not sure how you could ever film that.
It would work as a book, maybe. You could structure it as a series of chat logs. Slowly start to drop hints to the reader that suggest that something is wrong with both of them.
Eh, young women have been lusting after fictional characters like Mr Darcy, likely for as long as we’ve had literature.
These fictional characters can talk back, but it’s not really anything new.
