Half of Young Men Would Rather Date an AI Girlfriend Than Face Loneliness or Rejection, New Report Reveals | EZ Newswire
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AI girlfriends go mainstream: 80% of Gen Z open to virtual relationships as AI girlfriend market nears $140 billion

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36855283

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  • 50% of young men say they would rather date an AI girlfriend than risk rejection from a human partner
  • 31% of U.S. men aged 18–30 report already chatting with AI girlfriends
  • 19% of American adults overall say they have explored AI romance
  • 80% of Gen Z say they would consider a virtual relationship with an AI girlfriend
  • 83% of Gen Z believe they can form a deep emotional bond with AI companions
  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    There’s at least the specter of sourcing data:

    Methodology
- All original statistics cited in this report are based on:
- Internal usage data (AIGirlfriends.ai, Feb–May 2025)
- Proprietary user surveys (n=2,312)
- Public search data via Google Trends, Semrush, SimilarWeb, and App Store rankings
- Community scans of Reddit, Quora, and Twitter using NLP and Pushshift

    https://aigirlfriends.ai/blog/research/

    Can’t trust any conclusions as far as you can throw them, and probably not the specifics of the data, but I suspect the sentiment is worryingly correct.