{"id":187317,"date":"2024-04-13T16:22:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T21:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/tech-exec-predicts-billion-dollar-ai-girlfriend-industry"},"modified":"2024-04-13T16:22:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T21:22:30","slug":"tech-exec-predicts-billion-dollar-ai-girlfriend-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/tech-exec-predicts-billion-dollar-ai-girlfriend-industry","title":{"rendered":"Tech Exec Predicts Billion-Dollar AI Girlfriend Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tech-exec-predicts-billion-dollar-ai-girlfriend-industry2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When witnessing the sorry state of men <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surrey.ac.uk\/news\/popular-ai-friendship-apps-may-have-negative-effects-wellbeing-and-cause-addictive-behaviour-finds\" class=\"\">addicted to AI girlfriends<\/a>, one Miami tech exec saw dollar signs instead of red flags.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gregisenberg\/status\/1777697410350768187\" class=\"\">blog-length post on X-formerly-Twitter<\/a>, former WeWork exec Greg Isenberg said that after meeting a young guy who claims to spend $10,000 a month on so-called \u201cAI girlfriends,\u201d or relationship-simulating chatbots, he realized that eventually, someone is going to capitalize upon that market the way Match Group has with dating apps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought he was kidding,\u201d Isenberg wrote. \u201cBut, he\u2019s a 24-year-old single guy who loves it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When witnessing the sorry state of men addicted to AI girlfriends, one Miami tech exec saw dollar signs instead of red flags. In a blog-length post on X-formerly-Twitter, former WeWork exec Greg Isenberg said that after meeting a young guy who claims to spend $10,000 a month on so-called \u201cAI girlfriends,\u201d or relationship-simulating chatbots, he [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187317","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}