Comment on Half of Young Men Would Rather Date an AI Girlfriend Than Face Loneliness or Rejection, New Report Reveals

Warehouse@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• buckrogers@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thought this was a promoted post until I realised I was on lemmy.

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• Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Jesus Christ he’s off the charts!

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• brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A shameless one.

  The idea/statistic is still weirdly interesting and discussion worthy though.

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  • Warehouse@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Except it’s literally just an advertisement. None of the data can be trusted to mean anything.

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    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There’s at least the specter of sourcing data:

      Methodology
      All original statistics cited in this report are based on:
      Internal usage data (AIGirlfriends.ai, Feb–May 2025)
      Proprietary user surveys (n=2,312)
      Public search data via Google Trends, Semrush, SimilarWeb, and App Store rankings
      Community scans of Reddit, Quora, and Twitter using NLP and Pushshift
      

      aigirlfriends.ai/blog/research/

      Can’t trust any conclusions as far as you can throw them, and probably not the specifics of the data, but I suspect the sentiment is worryingly correct.

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