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China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns
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this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2026
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I think a lot of world problems would be solved if these things were encouraged instead. If someone needs their romantic partner to be a mindless sycophant, I would rather them have that with a machine than try to abuse a human person into serving them as would be more traditional. More children being born in situations other than exploitation and manipulation could only be a good thing.
You need to think of human beings as less binary good and binary evil.
I'm sure people who abuse their family members have plenty of good qualities as well. I'm not sure how that's relevant to what I said.
And for every 1 monster you remove from society by locking them in an AI mind prison, you'll ruin the lives of a hundred innocent people.
This is the same logic used for child sex dolls and other material consumed by paedophiles
Yeah, sure.
And I wouldn't be so pissed at Epstein and Trump and the rest of the pedophile class if they were just trafficking sex dolls.