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.”
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.
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
What if it’s the other way around – you’re not good enough for actual human women?
Wish he would fuck off along with the rest of the CEO class .
The real question is are sex dolls good enough? Because you cannot have sex with an AI girlfriend.
Not now
Phone sex is sex. Phone sex with an ai is still 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…
More specifically, physical sex.
I’m not sure one of the most evil people on earth is in a position to be dictating human values to anyone.
This is a good example of an unexpected problem of existing technology…
If only popular media weren’t jammed full of people fantasizing about creating artificial romantic partners or things to stick their junk into.
clickbait bullshit jfc
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
eric schmidt needs to take a dirt nap already
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.
Bad businessman, bad. Everyone knows you don’t bring problems without solutions.
Now what’s the solution? (One that doesn’t involve enslaving women further). Bet he won’t broach the idea of regulating AI companions, that would be bad for profit.
Herbivores are a thing in Japan… it’s a way to curb humanity’s growth i guess.
are they called herbivores for real or did you just make that up? (it’s clever )
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
Eriction Problems Schmidt says that he wish he would be young again.
Could the oldest profession be one of the first to be replaced by AI?
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