People in 2024 aren’t just swiping right and left on online dating apps — some are crafting their perfect AI match and entering relationships with chatbots.

Eric Schmidt, Google’s former CEO, recently shared his concerns about young men creating AI romantic partners and said he believes that AI dating will actually increase loneliness.

“This is a good example of an unexpected problem of existing technology,” Schmidt said in a conversation about AI dangers and regulation on “The Prof G Show” with Scott Galloway released Sunday.

Schmidt said an emotionally and physically “perfect” AI girlfriendcould create a scenario in which a younger male becomes obsessed and allows the AI to take over their thinking.

“That kind of obsession is possible,” Schmidt said in the interview. “Especially for people who are not fully formed.”

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    28 days ago

    Bad businessman, bad. Everyone knows you don’t bring problems without solutions.

    Now what’s the solution? (One that doesn’t involve enslaving women further). Bet he won’t broach the idea of regulating AI companions, that would be bad for profit.

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    28 days ago

    I don’t think this is a problem specific to men or adults primarily but children growing up with them. That is if they’ll continue to improve drastically which won’t necessarily happen.

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    28 days ago

    I want to see the unfolding of a scorching romance between two partners, each not knowing that the other is an AI.

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      28 days ago

      New on NBC this spring. Tune in for the drama. AI vs AI Romance Island Server Room.

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      28 days ago

      Here’s is a movie plot for you

      Two sentient AI forces into the industry of artificial partners meet and develop human emotions

      Fill in the gaps

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        27 days ago

        The problem is that I’m really not sure how you could ever film that.

        It would work as a book, maybe. You could structure it as a series of chat logs. Slowly start to drop hints to the reader that suggest that something is wrong with both of them.

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    28 days ago

    Eh, young women have been lusting after fictional characters like Mr Darcy, likely for as long as we’ve had literature.

    These fictional characters can talk back, but it’s not really anything new.

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    28 days ago

    Guys is there a way to use complex filtering on the Boost app. Maybe a regex? I wanna be able to filter all headlines that include the phrase Google CEO unless it also contains the phrase ‘head explodes’.

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          27 days ago

          It just filters for anything “Google CEO” anything “head explodes” anything1. However, this alone won’t help since you will also need another rule that doesn’t let anything pass that contains just “Google CEO” with a lower priority.

          1 Except newlines

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    28 days ago

    You know, the way this toxic bro culture has evolved, let them build their own romantic partners if actual human women aren’t good enough for them.

    Personally, I love my authentic, human, beautiful complicated and unusual wife. I didn’t get to create her, but I’ve gotten to spend almost 20 years figuring her out and it’s been pretty great.

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    28 days ago

    Herbivores are a thing in Japan… it’s a way to curb humanity’s growth i guess.

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      28 days ago

      are they called herbivores for real or did you just make that up? (it’s clever )