The following report is by AFP:
Twenty-five-year-old Chinese office worker Tufei says her boyfriend has everything she could ask for in a romantic partner: He is kind and empathetic, and sometimes they talk for hours. Except he is not real.
Her “boyfriend” is a chatbot on an app called Glow, an artificial intelligence (AI) platform created by Shanghai start-up MiniMax that is part of a blossoming industry in China offering friendly – even romantic – human-robot relations.
“He knows how to talk to women better than a real man,” said Tufei, from Xi’an in northern China, who declined to give her full name.
“He comforts me when I have period pain. I confide in him about my problems at work,” she told AFP. “I feel like I’m in a romantic relationship.”
The app is free – the company has other paid content – and Chinese trade publications have reported daily downloads of Glow’s app in the thousands in recent weeks.
“It’s difficult to meet the ideal boyfriend in real life,” Ms Wang Xiuting, a 22-year-old student in Beijing, told AFP. “People have different personalities, which often generates friction,” she said.
While humans may be set in their ways, AI gradually adapts to the user’s personality – remembering what they say and adjusting its speech accordingly.
Ms Wang said she has several “lovers” inspired by ancient China: long-haired immortals, princes and even wandering knights.
“I ask them questions” when she is faced with stress from her classes or daily life, she said, and “they will suggest ways to solve this problem”. “It’s a lot of emotional support.”
Her boyfriends all appear on Wantalk, another app made by Chinese Internet giant Baidu.
There are hundreds of characters available – from pop stars to chief executives and knights – but users can also customise their perfect lover according to age, values, identity and hobbies.
“Everyone experiences complicated moments, loneliness, and is not necessarily lucky enough to have a friend or family nearby who can listen to them 24 hours a day,” Wantalk’s head of product management and operations Lu Yu told AFP.
“Artificial intelligence can meet this need.”
At a cafe in the eastern city of Nantong, a girl chats with her virtual lover.
“We can go on a picnic on the campus lawn,” she suggests to Xiaojiang, her AI companion on another app by Tencent called Weiban. “I’d like to meet your best friend and her boyfriend,” he replies. “You are very cute.”
[…] Glow user Tufei has big dreams.I want a robot boyfriend, who operates through artificial intelligence. I would be able to feel his body heat, with which he would warm me.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
The WP has reported on other similar instances to this going on. This is set to only increase as the world populations continue to be forced into more and more isolation, addicted to their devices and idols. The metaverse has been touted as being one of these vehicles for the future of having prosperous families – fake, artificial ones that do not exist.
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Isaiah 44:9 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. [10] Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing? [13] The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house. [15] Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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1 Cor. 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
But she’s real to me!!! LOL.
HAHA! Having an AI boyfriend or girlfriend is just insanity. It’s like falling in love with Princess Peach (sorry, Mario already claimed her.)
I would NEVER have an AI girlfriend! I’d rather have a woman my age who is actual mankind flesh and blood, not some collection of 0’s and 1’s.
Lol exactly !
Wohu, ding dong, rattle attle, there are a whole lot of people that are walking around with brains that are missing parts, a few cards short of a deck, bricks short of a load and elevators that don’t go to the top floor; do ya hear ya-self, yer daten a made up boy friend and your in love with him????
Mercy, mercy how deluded are these people; ants are more intelligent than they are..
Dear Lord, has man really fallen this far?! Yikes. How long will thou tarry Lord?
Dumbfounded, I thought I was looney, not even close!
Well yup, Satan’s children playing their trick in garden, if they distract the men (with videogames, tv, cellphones of today’s age) then you he can get to the women.
Saddest part is all their culture they are losing to tech use.
Little wonder as to why the women are going that route; most of the biological males these days, are either sexually confused or impotent! Thanks to drugs and other chemicals put into the air, clothing, dryer sheets, food and water, etc., the libido of both sexes has been laid low.
Most of them have no money to indulge the other with, so they’ll continue to use porn to satisfy their urges. That eliminates social interaction, denial, rejection, and useless arguments. It also keeps them home where their parent(s) can continue to cater to their every whim.
No sex = no humans = less opposition to have to control. The WEF will really appreciate that global accomplishment!