The Twitch streamer Asmongold has built his career on playing WoW and delightfully embodying the stereotype of an MMORPG nerd. He believes that AI partners are the future for guys like him.
What’s the deal with AI girlfriends? In a recent stream, Asmongold discussed artificial intelligence. More specifically: artificial intelligence that is supposed to function as a substitute for human partners. The streamer believes this will become a huge thing.
Asmongold shows an article from the New York Post. In it, the CEO of a tech company predicts that the business of AI girlfriends will become a “billion-dollar industry.” The streamer disagrees with him on one point: it will be much bigger than just a billion dollars.
The streamer Amouranth has already recognized the potential of AI:
Asmongold thinks: AI girlfriends are the future for guys like him
How does Asmongold view the topic? Asmongold says there are many guys like him: In his youth, hardly any girl was interested in him. In fact, no girl was really interested in him until he became a streamer.
When you’re in such a situation, Asmongold says, AI chatbots don’t look so bad anymore.
“I don’t see a problem here; AI is just offering a solution,” writes a viewer in Asmongold’s chat. He agrees: “Yeah, I think that’s what will happen, and it will become more and more widespread. That’s the future.”
The Twitch streamer says, once the technology is advanced enough, many men will use it. The characters just need to look a bit more realistic and offer more interesting dialogue options. Then, Asmongold says, it will become an extremely lucrative business:
“I believe, and I’m not joking, this is a trillion-dollar industry. It’s bigger than pretty much any other industry. This is not a billion-dollar industry; this is a trillion-dollar industry.”
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Asmongold even believes that this can be a great solution for women too: Because the guys who would download an AI girlfriend wouldn’t be of interest to women anyway. If he were a woman, the streamer says, he would prefer that all the “creepy guys” stay away from him and go to their AI girlfriends.
But probably the best part is for Asmongold himself, as he already has a brilliant idea: He could get an AI girlfriend during the stream and try out how far one can go with it. That’s a “really, really, really good idea.”
In fact, such virtual relationships have existed for a while. The case of a Japanese man who married a hologram of the fictional singer Hatsune Miku is world-famous. The chatbot app Replika has also made headlines multiple times: it allows users to build relationships with AI, whether friendly, sibling, or romantic.
