Real men build their own girlfriends, they don't wait for some beta company to do it for them.

It's the lighting, the width of the aisle and the refrigerator doors at the end.

the priest/ monk class in the middle-ages

Lol as if those motherfuckers were celibate.

I do think with advanced porn technology we could see some serious societal issues. Especially if they are controlled for profit by a single megacorp like all the dating websites.

But ultimately AI girlfriends are just porn, even if you'd have like an advanced version in virtual reality with cyberdildonics going down on you every night. I suspect most dudes will have no problem separating the fantasy because... aehm men won't get addicted to one AI girlfriend because they'll want a whole harem of them lol.

So if you had a local AI software running on a solar powered PC and graphics card, it would even be a completely ethical form of pornography, since it's both sustainable and you do not contribute to the demand for young women to do for money what most wouldn't do just for fun.

AI porn fundamentally changes the dynamics of the industry, basically a few open source software / open weight models made not for profit could completely "democratize" the access to porn. I honestly think being able to cut out the transactional aspect of porn is a major moral stepping stone of human evolution. Similar to a technology that could fully replace meat and make animal slaughter superfluous.

That’s an interesting theory on monks. They also knew how to read and write and copy books, which was super useful. Do we know they were incels though (like prior to joining?) The rules prevent marriage. But for such a useful group, you’d think you’d want to keep them happy. Maybe allowing trips to the local brothel or something.