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.”
I’m not against using AI to explore sexuality, including practicing with a chat bot, but the technology just isn’t there yet. Most sexual talk from a chatbot comes from erotica. There’s plenty of written erotica for all types of people, so it can be pretty versatile, but it is generally just going to act as a fantasy machine, which makes for terrible practice. Real people aren’t like that.
But as AI and AR/VR become more mature, we’re going to get some pretty outrageous fantasy machines that are going to fuck up a lot of young men. I’m not even against full-on ultra-realistic hardcore simulations of sex, I just think we’re going to be really unhealthy with it like we usually are with this kind of thing.
Young men can hardly separate fantasy from reality and end up having parasocial relationships with camgirls instead of seeking real world companionship. When they can get a virtual deepfake blowjob from any girl with enough Instagram selfies to simulate, they’re going to end up broken in the worst way imaginable, and women will be on the receiving end of that exploitation.