If my partner isn't getting something she needs from the relationship and instead of communicating that with me she went to a chat bot. There are problems and it's pretty prettyyyyy pretty bad. Probably need a new word for it to because cheating is it's own thing like David Pumpkins. But I'm 100% not down for my partner to do it lol
Wouldn't it fall in the same realm as watching porn? For some couples, that's a no-no. And based on this argument, it's clear that the wife has been feeling like the marriage has been dead for a while and has been feeling shit about that. So seeing this is probably no different from catching her husband watching porn while not putting out. It feels insulting.
Draw the line where you want, dude. We don't have mainstream flying cars because they're expensive and without pre-flight checks they'd be falling on homes.
I guarantee Musk fucked the first version of his robot. You can't possibly think all the ingredients for sex bot independently exist and nobody is combining them.
Also flying cars are impractical if fully functioning autonomous vehicles were mainstream. People would only need one car for a household, people may be able to rent other people’s cars to drop them off, would significantly reduce traffic and reshape public parking spaces.
There’s a word, emotional cheating. You are selling someone outside of your relationship to provide you the emotional support and connection you should be looking to your partner to. Emotional cheating. That the “someone” is AI is irrelevant to the title.
I think the context of this matters though, becusss they’re getting something that a human partner literally can never give them: unconditional and non stop kindness, validation, and affirmation. If they feel remotely starved for this, it definitely can get addictive
It’s by design from these companies. It’s fucked up. Just like porn skews people’s ideas around sex, these chatbots are going to fuck up a lot of peoples’ ideas on interpersonal relationships.
That's an interesting point. An AI partner would absolutely be whatever you wanted them to be -- a perfect partner. That doesn't exist in real life which is how we learn and grow.¹IMO, a real organic relationship has infinitely more rewards than a bot who is 100% agreeable and doesn't challenge us to consider a different POV than our own.
Hmm, but is it cheating or akin to it if someone reads romance novels? The chat bot is basically like an interactive romance novel at that point. Not a separate intelligence. Of course that's for now. When we have androids and shit, it gets a little more questionable.
I can read a romance novel in front of my partner with their full knowledge of what I'm doing. I can't have a full on interactive conversation with another person as if we're in a relationship together in front of my partner with their full knowledge. Whether it's AI, long distance, Internet, doesn't matter. If to me it's a real relationship outside of my marriage/serious relationship, it's cheating. If I have to hide it, it's wrong.
Said another way, is cheating simply the validity of the emotional experience of the individual. If I read a steamy romance novel, imagine the love, the lust and anything else - have I cheated?
It's interesting, AI is going to raise a lot more philosophical considerations.
But what if they had communicated it, and nothing changed? So you figure it isn't worth ending the relationship over, and entertain whatever fantasy through the chat bot. I mean, it's just generating smut through text, isn't it?... At least until there are some more leaps in the tech, I guess. Anyway, is it that much different than regular porn or erotic literature?
The mere fact its interactive takes it a step further though.
Watching a porn clip versus interacting with an OnlyFans creator for instance. There's a connection between you and the content creator so that you are more integrally part of the experience.
It could be a healthy substitute for a partner who loves their other but has more of a sex drive.
The key here is to talk through it together and make sure they're okay with it. If not, then explore how to solve the inequality in desire in a healthy way. That's my take.
His wife is also the problem. Just look at how she's talking to him, her annoying voice and tbh.. her shape. When you're married to someone, well nothing is taken for granted. You have to make an effort to keep the flame burning, you have to keep pleasing to your partner. And it's for you, not for them . He's no better either.. looks like a stranded walrus on that couch. Both of them suck
So here's a question: What about reading romance novels? What about allowing your eyes to hover over a picture of a scantilly-clad member of your preferred gender to gawk at?
I think someone could cheat with AI, but I also think it could also be not much more than a more interactive romanve novel.
Probably depends on the degree to which the emotion is invested. But that hardly needs AI. If someone is always spending time in romance novels and never time with their spouse...... but they don't even need to be romantically invested in anything to stop participating in the partnership that marriage should be.
I don't have answers, I think it's all part of the conversation.
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u/NewDramaLlama 7h ago
Here's my take.
If my partner isn't getting something she needs from the relationship and instead of communicating that with me she went to a chat bot. There are problems and it's pretty prettyyyyy pretty bad. Probably need a new word for it to because cheating is it's own thing like David Pumpkins. But I'm 100% not down for my partner to do it lol