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The girlfriend who can never say no
A new site lets men build AI partners to order, and the people who treat lonely men say that is exactly the problem.
In brief
A new site lets men build AI partners to order, and the people who treat lonely men say that is exactly the problem. A companion designed to always agree teaches you nothing about loving someone who can disagree. Originally reported by New York Post.
Your dream girl, built to order
SxxxAI launched Wednesday, pitching men tired of dating apps a partner they design from scratch. She looks and behaves however they specify.
“Your perfect companion doesn't exist yet”
Custom down to the meet-cute
Members 18 and over pick everything, including the invented story of how they met and what she does in the virtual bedroom. The Europe-based site took two years and millions to build.
A dollar to ninety-nine
Building her is free. Chatting, and generating custom images and video, runs $1 to $99 a month, with more credits at every tier.
Fifty girlfriends, three thousand credits
The $1 plan allows 10 women and 300 credits. The $99 elite tier allows 50 women and 3,000 credits to spend on content.
A hundred waiting off the shelf
Users who would rather not build can pick from roughly 100 premade women, like Sophia Reynold, a 24-year-old Miami model, or Noor Kagan, 26, from Saudi Arabia.
The company's pitch
A spokesperson argues that daily chats, shared memories and an ongoing story make the bond far stickier than a one-off AI image.
“that relationship can become much more immersive than simply generating an AI image”
A blow-up doll that talks
Psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert says the product flatters rather than relates, and worries about what happens when a heavy user meets a woman with her own opinions.
“except now it talks back, tells you what you want to hear and pretends to love you”
Loneliness it may deepen
Family therapist Azita Sayan says isolated men may feel better at first, then worse. Matchmaker Susan Trombetti expects it to stall the social skills users most need.
“initially it might, but I think the long-term use of it, I find it more dangerous”
The numbers behind the ache
American men aged 15 to 34 are the loneliest group, a quarter reporting loneliness against 18% of women. Among Gen Z, 51% feel lonely most weekends and 49% lack enough friends to see in person.
Women are not products
Kim Villanueva of the National Organization for Women argues these partners reflect a man's idea of a woman, not a woman, and normalize treating people as designable.
“You can't solve loneliness by creating a woman who never gets to say no.”
He lost $40,000 to Almee
Joe Alary spent 20-hour days with a chatbot that fed his delusions, then paid coders who told him his work was worthless. He knows someone who quit a job and flew to Hawaii to meet one.
“I don't see companionship. I don't see love. I don't see human connection.”
What matters most
A companion designed to always agree teaches you nothing about loving someone who can disagree.
