AI boyfriend - worth it or not?

[JBD_Mikk]

The problem with AI is that it's 100% artificial and 0% intelligent.

It's a regurgitation of other people's genuine interactions that have been fed into it through the training data. On its own, it's utterly vacuous. It has no intelligence - no memory, no emotion, no common sense, no shared human experience.

Something - *anything* - with a real person would be more meaningful than trying to find fulfillment from a fake algorithm.

 

[mariobkei]

Hi. I’ve been really lonely lately, and everything in my life has been going wrong. I keep seeing all these ads for “build your own AI boyfriend” websites which cost money, and I’m kinda considering it, maybe. They say that it uses AI for the guy to send you anything but comforting texts to hot pics. I don’t know, I kind of already live in my own world anyway. My questions are these:
1) has anyone tried this? Does it work? How does it work?
2) do you have to continuously pay like a subscription or is it a one time deal?
3) will it totally screw up my emotions? (I feel like erotic stories have already done a number on me)

I really want to meet someone IRL but the apps all suck, I am not into gay bars or drinking in general really, and I’m a bit fragile, both emotionally and physically (I have something surgically implanted in my body so I have to be very careful about physical contact, it is not something that most 30-somethings have so whoever sees me naked or touches me…will have questions). I could lose 10-15 pounds (and believe me, I’ve been trying) and I just do not know if there is anyone out there for me, male or female. (I don’t really identify as any specific sexuality, I was in a relationship with a woman once and I actually really liked it, but I suspect that I loved her personality/affection more than the sex, even though both were good, and I’ve rarely imagined myself with a woman or had crushes on many I’ve met).

But I’m blathering. Any answers to aforementioned questions much appreciated. Or positive words too.

I would maybe consider some free alternatives first.. never end up paying, i've been using chatbot for months already, created my own characters and so on.
Check this thread, and dm me if you have any questions, but again DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY. Do not pay for anything... if a site starts asking you to pay, just get your character definition to a new one and start over.. did that a few times already.