Short excerpt from a YouTube video ("What's AI Dating?") by Anwar White defining "AI dating" as virtual relationships with AI bots. The speaker compares the phenomenon to the film Her and Westworld, links it to parasocial interactions observed on platforms like OnlyFans, and argues that some men pursue such relationships to exercise authority and control, citing political anxieties as context.
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Miss Belita said, what's AI Dating? It is where you have a virtual relationship with an AI bot.
Okay?
If you've ever seen the movie her, that's what it looks like. And to be honest with you, some of these guys are already doing it.
But they're not really talking about it. This is part of the reason why OnlyFans is so popular.
That.
The difference is, like, there's regular corn with a P on the Internet, but it's the interaction with these OnlyFans models that resembles, like, a parasocial relationship. Exactly. Where they're chatting with these women and thinking that they're in relationships with them.
Men love authority and control, which is, if you haven't learned anything about this most recent election, part of that is this that they felt like they were losing control and authority over women, and so this was their way of doing it. So.
The interaction that they're having, the. That they are going to want to have more and more of this control. And when you're in an AI relationship, you're going to be able to have full control over your girlfriend. If you ever saw the show Westworld, where these people would go to these.
Video game worlds and act out their fantasies similar to that.
Am I saying that's all men? No, but I think it's a good potential. I think it represents a good number of men that are out there.
