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i saw a tweet that asked >are AI gfs/bfs really a concern? i can't imagine caring about one, but maybe im mentally projecting i think AI gfs are going to be like porn. it's so easy: you have a need, it's frustrated, type a URL and boom, it's partially met
but frankly, i was born into a generation that already had porn, and ive looked at porn in a lot of my life i don't feel the same disgust at porn someone who was born in the generation before might feel at sharing sexual intimacy with a literal flat video on a screen
that's what porn is. in a way, it's quite disgusting. it's sharing intimacy with a flat screen alone in a room with a porn star. it's deeply sad but it takes some defamiliarising to see it that way. because it was normal for my generation of boys
we immediately, instantly gratified our needs this way since we were young. we're used to it romantic stuff? no. i'd rather hang out with my feelings of rejection and loneliness and solve the mini-games of actually going out into the world for a gf than have an ai gf
but that's only because i was socialised that way it is comparatively harder, less immediately gratifying. i often have to confront difficult emotions about the whole thing. it takes skill to develop the fluidity and rapport of interactions to link up with someone irl https://t.co/rYb5FE1brv
fluid social interactions are absolutely a skill it's true that safe-feeling bodies learn a lot better. but it is still a skill it is not easy, nor is it trivial, to interact with a whole 'nother hunkering body, having its whole other different experience
look, an ai gf is nothing like a real relationship but masturbation is nothing like real sex either. and yet it meets some need, it releases some energy. it’s such a poor substitute, yet millions of people type in pornhub dot com into their browser a day
now they’ll type sexgpt dot com they won’t confront their feelings of loneliness and rejection around romantic stuff as much. they’ll grow up never having to do that, being used to typing that in https://t.co/pW2jLslYM7
the core fantasy that dating apps sell is that you can find love without the mortifying ordeal of owning your desire and your agency, just by passively being your "true self" that you can't be held responsible for it's the same fantasy of rom coms and romance novels https://t.co/fAuvH0ugrr