Twenty-five-year-old Chinese office worker Tufei says her boyfriend has everything she could ask for in a romantic partner: he's kind, empathetic, and sometimes they talk for hours.

‘Better than a real man’: young Chinese women turn to AI boyfriends::Twenty-five-year-old Chinese office worker Tufei says her boyfriend has everything she could ask for in a romantic partner: he’s kind, empathetic, and sometimes they talk for hours.

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      10 months ago

      You’re 100% correct lol. Men who do this are roundly mocked and called sad creepy incels.

      That said, the culture and dating scene for women in China is pretty awful. My ex was Chinese and had some awful dating stories, now she avoids dating Chinese men. Easy for her to do as she left china, but not everybody can/wants to.

      We need to learn to be a little less mean to anybody who uses these apps. They’re likely doing it because they see little alternative, yet still want affection. Calling them losers, be they male or female, achieves nothing other than hurting them.

    • DudeDudenson@lemmings.worldEnglish
      26·
      10 months ago

      Men do this and a company straight up profited from it until they tried to go back to be sponsor friendly and gimped their AI personas service

    • InfiniWheelEnglish
      12·
      10 months ago

      Aren’t we already with this? I never see anyone going “You go queen!” over someone’s virtual bf

      • 01011@monero.townEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        This is relatively novel, give it time…

        I did see that response to “sologamy” articles - women marrying themselves.