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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I hate to break it to them but that's not a reason people would stop fucking - it's a consequence.

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[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

Does that include games like “Love and Deepspace” https://youtu.be/-BfagDqg8zU

[–] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Iʻm no wizard of number words, but I think the declining birth rate there might have something to do with the decades of one-child policy that wound up favoring male children...

[–] FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

And the brutal abortions if the child being born was a girl

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 points 35 minutes ago

That's not an abortion at the point the child has a gender, that's just plain murder.

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you a wizard of other words?

[–] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

Eschatology is for end times stuff, scatology is poop stuff, there is definitely a word magic in there

[–] Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works 113 points 2 days ago

Downloads an ai chat bot

[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 89 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Who the fuck romancing AI? I guess this is new low for humankind, don't blame me if someday we got doomed because of it.

[–] beveradb@sh.itjust.works 75 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

I hate to be the one to inform you but... legit hundreds of millions of people 😔

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 54 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Lonely man here, I'd rather stay lonely my entire life than have my emotions held hostage simping for an LLM.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Held hostage? I don't get how anyone can suspend their disbelief enough to not feel like a tool "romancing" a sophisticated text predictor.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

It's easier if you assume that these are people who have never received any kind of positive reinforcement ever in their lives.

Yeah, Same here honestly

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You're not their target audience

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago

Correct, I have some self respect

[–] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

Thank fuck I am not

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

There's also the fun part where all your chats gets released in a court case or the AI company gets bought out by facebook and they immediately sell all your personal chat logs to advertisers

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

https://www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/

... ok, so we got uh... the 'BookTok' crowd of bipolar/neurotic smut connoisseurs...

https://www.reddit.com/r/MyGirlfriendIsAI/

... and a mix of hopeless chuds and niceguy incels.

And probably also just a segment of full time hikikomori permagooners, of any sex/gender.

There ya go, that's roughly who.

[–] reshuffle6655@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"hikikomori permagooners"

My curiosity is at war with my desire to remain optimistic about humanity

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Sorry uh ... in less 'online speak'...

People who basically never leave their room/apartment and masturbate like it's going out of style.

Hikikomori is basically the Japanese word for a person who literally never goes outside, never socializes in person ... 'gooning' is now a verb for masturbating.

[–] reshuffle6655@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 17 hours ago

I mean, I guess I'd prefer my permagooners to be shut ins at least. Thanks for satisfying my curiosity!

[–] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The American term for this is “creepy shut in”

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm American, and I said what I said, lol

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[–] deft@lemmy.wtf 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's cause young Chinese men don't fuck.

And you killed all the little girls decades ago.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A lot of those girls were hidden or otherwise, kept off the books from the Chinese government. Not actually that hard in the more rural areas. Not that that excuses the Chinese government's polices, but the families of those girls weren't all that depraved. Lot of of adult women suddenly started materializing out of nothing for college.

It's been years, so citing my source is hard, but I'll see what I can find.

edit: https://news.ku.edu/news/article/2016/11/22/study-finds-chinas-missing-girls-theory-likely-far-overblown

...have analyzed statistics and found that a combination of late registration and unreported births explains a larger portion of the "missing girls" than previously reported in Chinese sex-ratio-at-birth statistics. Their findings are published this month in the journal China Quarterly.

The researchers believe local government officials informally worked with farmers and acknowledged that they couldn't fully enforce the one-child policy. Instead they made tacit agreements in allowing families to have extra children in exchange for social stability in their communities. The cadres, or local governments, would then under-report “out of plan” births that ultimately influenced the national population statistics.

There was also abortions happening and infanticide probably trails behind that. Not great, but not as bad as is passed around. People probably aren't having kids in China for the same reason they're not having kids everywhere else. Despite what we hear, people in China are either too poor or too busy with work.

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Here in the States, AI romance is one of the few AI services common shlubs will pay for. Most users only use their free token allotment. Otherwise it's businesses that buy tokens and drive AI profits.

And US AI offerings are still plummeting into debt, so any service that makes money is welcome. So far, AI workforce replacement costs more than human workers (by far) and does a poorer job most of the time. Hence Doctorow's notion of a reverse centaur, the human employee that checks the machine's work (rather than the machine checking and augmenting human work).

Also here in the States we have a culture war. Manosphere men (Incels, MGTOW, seduction culture, alpha males, etc.) vote Republican, so influencers get infused with billionaire money. But women (even conservative women) find them insufferable. The battle of the sexes, like the war against trans folk, immigrants and libs serves to distract people away from class consciousness.

Zoomers are not having sex compared to prior generations at the same age, and an AI companion might be a serviceable substitute. They were already taking on waifus anyway.

The affordability crisis, poor job growth and poorer upward mobility also informs the lowest fertility rate in US history (below 1.6 which some think is critical). To be fair, US fertility has been below replacement for decades, and we made it up with immigration.

And it's the ownership class most frightened by depopulation. Curiously they keep making policy decisions that are downright anti-natal.

[–] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Their folly is keeping the population educated, which is actually the highest correlation with declining birth rates.

If AI could be better, there's no need to support education. But without source material from educated people to cultivate it's growth, eventually the AI will wither again.

We are entering an age of neo-feudalism because there is not much more to construct nor motivation to innovate (China doesn't scare as hard as USSR). And when an entire generation adopts malaise and substitution like the Zoomers, the old hegemony of US dominance wanes, which sets the groundwork for a radicalized future after that period.

It's like that saying: strong men make strong times, which produces weak men which begets weak times of increased radicalization, which produces strong men. Ad nauseum.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 hours ago

They're doing a lot to curb education now, and as it is, STEM and literacy are dropping hard in generation alpha.

But that also means the US master race is just not going to be able to compete compared to EU and China. If the US was stable, it would mean the US would turn into another North Korea.

But the US is destabilizing as we watch. We may end up in the same situation that Germany was in during the late 1930s, where they borrowed too much and run out of resources, and have a big ol' army standing by; it's time to get expansionist.

I think Chinese bombers over Washington blotting out the sun is the worst possible outcome, but it's still on the table.

[–] OS2Warp@lemmy.zip 42 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Coming soon from Boston Dynamics and Realdoll.

[–] wrinkle2409@lemmy.cafe 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Ah yes, those people are totally start going out and fucking as much as possible. It's not like that is a symptom of a more general social issue that has been getting worse way before LLMs were popular. And it is also not that people will develop relationships with all sorts of inanimate objects and concepts to cope with reality. The problem was just the AI guys, yay pat yourself in the back

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[–] stumu415@lemmy.zip 47 points 2 days ago

None of this shit in China

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What does chud even mean anymore

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