Downloads an ai chat bot

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.

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

None of this shit in China

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...

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

What does chud even mean anymore

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

And you killed all the little girls decades ago.

LLMs are horrible at a lot of things, but this is one area where they excel i'd guess. The things are trained on volumes upon volumes of spicy fanfic and roleplay chats posted for free online. They can probably cater to kinks that I don't even know exist. Because the lonely aren't seeking objective responses the hallucinations aren't as obvious.

Not that it's a good thing that they are okay at this though. I'd hate to find out a person got LLM induced psychosis from their fake AI gf.

Doing the "right" thing for a very wrong reason is still wrong.

There are legitimate reasons to be skeptical, but the state has no right to your children.

Don’t see a source on this bc shitpost but tbf I don’t think most people want kids in a world that’s actively burning down lmao

Also isn’t China’s youth unemployment rate something like 20%?

I’m sure it’s not great in other countries either but yeah think I remember reading about the “lay flat” movement (kind of like quiet quitting/job finding struggles in the US)

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.

It's actually capitalism declining the birth rate.

Inb4 state sponsored uterus loaded robots a la westlife