…who shall remain nameless.
This:
“Experience the future of companionship with an AI girlfriend chatbot. Designed to listen engage and respond with intelligence and warmth this virtual partner offers meaningful conversations, emotional support, and personalized interactions. Whether you seek a friend a confidante or just casual chats this ai girlfriend chatbot companion is always there for you anytime anywhere. Enjoy a unique ever-evolving connection powered by artificial intelligence.”
I think a blow-up doll is more ethical. The product is as perilous as crack or heroin, and destined to cripple and manipulate vulnerable, lonely people, like, say, me. It is the logical and inevitable next step from 800 sex chat phone lines. They can’t be made illegal; someone will undoubtedly argue that AI girlfriend chatbots can be therapeutic and even, on balance, capable of accomplishing more good than bad.
Sure. As for me, I’m reminded of this post from 2017: The Unibomber Had A Point.
Res ipsa loquitur.
Ethics Alarms 
Reminded me of the movie, “Her” – I can’t believe that came out 12 years ago. I saw it about 2 years ago.
https://youtu.be/ne6p6MfLBxc?si=rivQDtOPMdEt4u5m
Then there’s also Ex Machina (2014).
It seems to me most people are always glued to their smart phones; so, they might as well put the AI girlfriend or boyfriend app on there also.
Or how about the ending of Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
Hopefully, she would respond better and more accurately than the Yahoo email bot that unhelpfully summarizes emails from Mr. Golden. For example:
“(Redacted) from (Redacted) shares his relief from falling asleep at the drive-thru and the unexpected paystubs issue, while also updating you on the progress of ‘Animal Farm’ and the cast of ‘Daredevil’, including a tragic loss and a newfound guilt.”
Mr. Golden did not fall asleep in the drive-thru, though he felt like it. The rest of it is tossed together like a child building a Lego set without the directions.
” . . . virtual partner offers meaningful conversations, emotional support, and personalized interactions.” Who wants that? My wife and i can’t agree on what’s for dinner. Why would I need some AI bot telling me what I want fir dinner?
jvb
One step closer to total individual isolation which makes it easier to control the plebiscite.
Dystopian science fiction like Brave New World and The Matrix comes to mind. Virtual reality as the ultimate blue pill. Soulless man unable to have true human interactions hitting the dopamine levers via experiences generated by AI, robots, sex dolls, and other toys. How long will it take before the first AI girlfriend or sex doll/robot passes the Turing test? Would a contribution to the First Church of Appliantology of Rev. L Ron Hoover be appreciated….I start feeling weird…
“Turn it down! Don’t you boys know any nice songs?”
jvb