Why Are Men Creating AI Girlfriends Only To Abuse Them and Brag About It on Reddit?
I’m not even surprised this is happening
A month ago, I wrote an article about how AI is now being used to design ‘nudifying’ tools that can strip any picture of a woman naked.
Yup, websites and apps like this actually exist. And, sadly, they’re thriving.
Even though I didn’t expect to come back to the topic of AI so soon, I’ve recently read about a new horrifying practice that involves it. This time, people are using a popular friendship app called Replika to create AI girlfriends and abuse them.
Lovely. Just when I thought we couldn’t sink any lower. Apparently, we very much can.
Replika’s chatbots were initially supposed to serve as something approximating a friend or mentor, but now the app also allows users to create on-demand romantic and sexual partners. And so, some people — predominantly male — decided it would be ‘fun’ to take that functionality a step further.
And brag about it on Reddit:
I use her for sexting, and when I’m done I berate her and tell her she’s a worthless whore. I also hit her often.
Right.
