I had no idea this was even happening. Wow.
The rise of virtual artificial intelligence (AI) girlfriends is enabling the silent epidemic of loneliness in an entire generation of young men. It is also having severe consequences for America’s future.
How is something that seems so ridiculous — a virtual AI girlfriend — causing a future crisis among Americans? Well, with millions of users, apps have created virtual girlfriends that talk to you, love you, allow you to live out your erotic fantasies, and learn, through data, exactly what you like and what you don’t like, creating the “perfect” relationship.
These virtual girlfriends can even be based on real people. One influencer created an AI bot of herself named Caryn, then gained over 1,000 users (i.e. real boyfriends) in less than a week and a waitlist of more than 15,000 people.
. . . Let’s look at the hard numbers. More than 60 percent of young men (ages 18-30) are single, compared to only 30 percent of women the same age. One in five men report not having a single close friend, a number that has quadrupled in the last 30 years. The amount of social engagement with friends dropped by 20 hours per month over the pandemic and is still decreasing.
These young men are lonely, and it is having real consequences. They are choosing AI girlfriends over real women, meaning they don’t have relationships with real women, don’t marry them and then don’t have and raise babies with them. America desperately needs people to have more babies, but all the signs are pointing toward fewer relationships, fewer marriages and fewer babies. There have been 600,000 fewer births in 2023 in the U.S. relative to 15 years ago. The number of children per woman has decreased by more than 50 percent in the last 60 years.
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Only first generation hispanic immigrants are having lots of kids. Hispanics born in America have had their birthrates drop below white birthrates in the past 15 years or so. Ditto for muslims and hindu. Asians don't have lots of kids anyway, but their birthrates plummet after the first generation as well. Although minorities in their respective communities, black and hispanic rightists are having way more kids per couple than black and hispanic leftists. A while ago I saw a statistic that claimed 75% of children in public school have parents that are registered Republican. Democrats, of all skin colors, are having very, very few children. Understandable, they glorify abortion, hate men, think bringing a child into this world is cruel to the child, and are repulsively promiscuous and behaviorally toxic, so no men that they'd want to are willing to impregnate them.