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Half of Young Men Would Rather Date an AI Girlfriend Than Face Loneliness or Rejection, New Report Reveals (www.eznewswire.com)
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36855283

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  • 50% of young men say they would rather date an AI girlfriend than risk rejection from a human partner
  • 31% of U.S. men aged 18–30 report already chatting with AI girlfriends
  • 19% of American adults overall say they have explored AI romance
  • 80% of Gen Z say they would consider a virtual relationship with an AI girlfriend
  • 83% of Gen Z believe they can form a deep emotional bond with AI companions
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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

A shameless one.

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

[–] Warehouse@lemmy.ca 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours 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

https://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.