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China’s Growing Trend of Virtual AI Relationships and Social Products: A Cultural Shift or Dystopian Future?

[Llais Gobaith Chwefror 15, 2024](Interview and report by our reporter Wang Xiao)

China’s big Internet companies are competing with each other to invent social AI products. A growing number of young Chinese women are turning to “virtual relationships” with artificial intelligence (AI) boyfriends. Some say that finding men in real life is too demanding, but apps like this can customize the perfect partner based on personal preferences to find emotional comfort. Such thinking and popular trends run counter to the Chinese government’s encouragement for young people to marry and have children. Li Yuanhua, a scholar in Australia, said: Allowing AI to interfere in human marriage and love life will disrupt the normal order of human life. In the end, AI will control humans, replace humans, and completely destroy humans .

According to a report by the British Broadcasting Corporation “BBC”, 22-year-old Wang Xiuting customized the perfect companion according to her wishes and preferences in Chinese Internet giant Baidu’s social AI product “Wanhua”. She believes that couples and partners are not really perfect. But the intelligent agent can follow her own will. The user can choose from hundreds of characters such as bosses and singers, and can set his personality, his experience, including what kind of story to develop with him. This can give her emotional comfort outside of the classroom.

According to the public statistics of Jiemian’s official financial account “Tech Planet”, since this year, many large Internet companies are competing to develop AI products, launching a total of 9 functional products and services, including APP “Weiban” Tencent Music, APP “Dream Island” Tencent China Literature, “Douyin Xinqing” Douyin, “Famous AI Emotional Conversation”, APP “WOW” Meituan, “AI Xiaokuai” Kuaishou, among which Baidu has the largest, there are 4 AI social products including ” Xiaokan Planet”, “SynClub”, “WiseAI”, and “Wanhua”.

Currently, WeChat is the only super social APP in mainland China with more than 1 billion monthly activities, and its social dominance is hard to shake. Big Internet companies are investing in AI social products one after another, hoping that when social networking is replicated over the generations, their products may become the AI ​​social version of “WeChat” in the future.

Xin Jiya, an unmarried post-90s generation, told Voice of Hope: “I think the AI ​​phenomenon is actually not entirely due to the invention of technology. It reflects the lack of connections between people in society and the lack of human emotions. The need cannot be satisfied, so it can only seek comfort from some inhuman things. There were other choices long before the appearance of AI. As a love game, you can conquer the characters in it, and it is satisfying Your your kind of needs, including when watching movies and animations, many people will be crazy about a certain character, which also reflects this kind of needs. People themselves have emotional needs. But sometimes boys really, you and Getting along with him is no different than getting along with a piece of wood, so you might as well think why should I bother, he can’t meet your emotional needs.”

Xinjiya believes that falling in love with AI cannot replace falling in love with real people. Physical contact between men and women – AI cannot replace hugging and comforting.

Li Yuanhua, a scholar in Macao, said: “This phenomenon reflects the cruelty of Chinese society. If you are not the second generation of officials or the second generation of rich people, or in other words, you cannot have the opportunity to to get on in society, many people lack it. Moreover, the cost of getting married and falling in love in real society is very high, and some people cannot afford it. The pressure and embarrassment of society in them forced to move to the virtual world. Furthermore, this generation of children actually grew up in games. Games are actually a virtual society, they are used to indulging in a virtual society All the worries in real life are met in the virtual world. It’s a game of interaction in the name of love. Why doesn’t he fall in love in real life? Because if he does fall in love, he’ll hit a wall every time, and the blow will be too big. Or he doesn’t have that much money, or he won’t talk about it Some people fall in love and don’t want to give, and both parties want to ask for it So how can the this relationship gone? Talk about it? So, let me live and virtual life.”

Li Yuanhua said: When you fall in love with AI, you can do it according to your own temperament without having to take responsibility. (3) Develop this habit, Isn’t it the same in your real life? When two people fall in love, it is actually a process of adapting to each other for life. So now he doesn’t want to adapt to others, he wants to follow his own temper! Deep down (thought), it is to destroy people. Including games, including these things, they actually want to control you! Ruin you! As normal people, we should have a life and have to give! You’re happy because you paid! Only each other can have this kind of happiness! But if you live in a virtual world all year round, you are asking this person to give up real life. Now that it is developed, it must be promoted and more people will play this thing. In fact, it will disrupt your routine and completely destroy it. For example, if you don’t get married, where will your children come from? How can your human society continue? If you fall in love (with an AI), will you get married? You’re getting married, but what do you do after you’re married? If I can adopt and you don’t have a family life, then the child and you will have an incomplete life! Disrupting your normal life routine will actually completely replace all human life. In the end, you will be at the mercy of this AI: In two days, my AI will give up, what will you do do? Are you together falling out of love? One day my company no longer wants to collect your money, what will happen? Are you all going to commit suicide? So you can’t think too much about this. Because I can provide it to you, I don’t have to provide it to you. Today I can provide it to you for free, and tomorrow I can provide it to you for a high fee. He is actually controlling you in disguise! In the end, you will lose yourself, or in other words, you will lose all the basic order that has become a human being! If everything is gone, are we still human? Still human? “

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