Reporter Anna Louie Sussman discusses the growing trend for users of online dating platforms to employ AI chatbots to create their romantic profiles, flirt, and arrange dates. As the skill for writing original prose or even grammatically correct sentences becomes a lost art for many, AI fills the breach but reduces the most intimate forms of discourse to the mechanical, scripted, and formulaic. Feminist author Laura Bates’ new book explores how AI is being harnessed to create submissive online fantasy girlfriends and enable deepfake porn of real women, including herself. Are we now one step closer to AI-powered robots replacing human partners and to becoming cyborgs ourselves? It is a Brave New World.
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