By Julian Kwasniewski, Crisis Magazine, Feb. 21, 2024
Julian Kwasniewski is a musician specializing in renaissance Lute and vocal music, an artist and graphic designer, as well as marketing consultant for several Catholic companies. His writings have appeared in National Catholic Register, Latin Mass Magazine, OnePeterFive, and New Liturgical Movement. …
Pause for a moment and consider what it means to conceive of a woman as something which could compete with a “virtual girlfriend.”
Various media outlets have begun to document the creation of AI “girlfriend” platforms, weighing potential pros and cons. Noting how these platforms cater to customers’ libidinal whims, pundits have wondered whether real women have any chance against customizable, impossibly beautiful, and always compliant women. As U.K. writer Freya India puts it, the “only hope” women have now is “that most men will want something human enough to resist.”
It is worth pausing to consider what competition means here, and whether real women really can compete with their AI counterparts. …