AI Girlfriend
topic on 4 shows · 7 statements across 6 episodes
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Sam Lessin: Human-in-the-loop AI will dominate pure synthetic AI girlfriends
“It's a plausible future, but I think what's much more likely to happen is that, you know, you have human loop AI where you have real humans, real brands at the top, right? This would be the only fans creators. And then all the AI in tech is basically gives you…”
McGrew: Men are not seeking deep emotional connections with AI girlfriends
“I am a little skeptical of the deep emotional connection, you know, that, that, you know, guys are gonna have AI girlfriends. I think that's not what guys are looking for in a girlfriend, frankly.”
Coogan: Biggest AI opportunities lie in controversial categories big labs avoid
“The biggest AI opportunity is that we've seen in the last few years have been the ones that the big labs just don't want to touch. It's like the AI girlfriend stuff. It's like too controversial. So probably not going to be killed by ChatGPT because they'll be …”
Chou: NSFW AI girlfriends are a seven-figure MRR opportunity for tiny teams
“This is a mid six figure to even, I would even go as far to say seven figure opportunity per month, MRR per month. And people doing, who are doing this, Small team. Like, under five people.”
Morin: AI boyfriends far outpace AI girlfriends in App Store usage
“Well, there was a piece this week, I'll have to find it, that looked at the data in terms of what's being used in the App Store, and AI boyfriends are far outpacing AI girlfriends, apparently.”
Sam Lessin: Short AI companions because algorithmic feeds beat them for attention
“Yeah, I'd be short this stuff because your AI girlfriend better be damn entertaining to be, to compete with literally a billion people producing content for your attention with an algorithmic feed. I think that's really hard, right?”