{"id":168063,"date":"2023-07-22T00:24:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T05:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/uncharted-territory-do-ai-girlfriend-apps-promote-unhealthy-expectations-for-human-relationships"},"modified":"2023-07-22T00:24:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T05:24:26","slug":"uncharted-territory-do-ai-girlfriend-apps-promote-unhealthy-expectations-for-human-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/uncharted-territory-do-ai-girlfriend-apps-promote-unhealthy-expectations-for-human-relationships","title":{"rendered":"Uncharted territory: do AI girlfriend apps promote unhealthy expectations for human relationships?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uncharted-territory-do-ai-girlfriend-apps-promote-unhealthy-expectations-for-human-relationships2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think an AI girlfriend or boyfriend would mess up your social skills and emotions\/mental health. The article mentions other issues as well. It could turn some into \u201cincels\u201d meaning feeling resentful towards real women and possibly violent, not just domestic violence in my opinion but I\u2019m not an expert but I\u2019ve read about that a bit.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Chatbots such as Eva AI are getting better at mimicking human interaction but some fear they feed into unhealthy beliefs around gender-based control and violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think an AI girlfriend or boyfriend would mess up your social skills and emotions\/mental health. The article mentions other issues as well. It could turn some into \u201cincels\u201d meaning feeling resentful towards real women and possibly violent, not just domestic violence in my opinion but I\u2019m not an expert but I\u2019ve read about that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":528,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}