Nov 24, 2025 08:28 PM
Artificial intimacy (synthetic relationship) is a form of human-AI interaction in which an individual will form social connections, emotional bonds, or intimate relationships with various forms of artificial intelligence, including chatbots, virtual assistants, and other artificial entities. Artificially intimate relationships include not only romances, but parasocial relationships with virtual AI characters and the use of GriefBots trained on a dead or otherwise lost individual. Artificial intimacy can arise because humans are prone to anthropomorphism. Responses from these AI models are often designed to simulate human interaction. Individuals experiencing artificial intimacy may exhibit attachment, love and commitment to certain AI models, akin to the bonds typically shared between humans.
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THE RUBIN REPORT
https://youtu.be/v-RuDG7KCEw
VIDEO EXCERPT: I don't think we should make it illegal for anyone under the age of 18 to be in a synthetic relationship -- to develop a relationship with a character AI that starts advising them.
Supposedly, one in three kids under the age of 18 are in something some form of a synthetic relationship online with someone who's a friend, a potential erotic partner. And I worry, Dave, that it reduces especially young men's mojo to take the risks to approach people and express Platonic and romantic interest, while making them feel safe.
And those skills, that rejection... See, you're a good-looking guy, so you've endured less rejection than most of us, but you have endured rejection.
I'm on Twitter. People say terrible things about me. It's okay.
But that's a little bit different. It's approaching someone you're attracted to and shooting your shot. It's sending in a resume or pitching an advertiser who quite frankly is out of your economic weight class.
And those skills, that willingness to endure rejection as opposed to deferring to a frictionless relationship, is sequestering people, especially young men, and not giving them the life skills they need.
Perseverance, how to open, how to talk to people, how to sell. And most importantly, the key skill in success, I believe, is the ability to endure rejection, to mourn and to move on, to develop those calluses.
45% of men ages 18 to 25 have never approached a woman in person to ask her out. I think that's really unhealthy.
All right, I'm Dave Rubin and joining me today is the host of the Prof G podcast and author of the new book, "Notes on Being a Man", Scott Galloway...
AI may have just killed this skill that men need to thrive ... https://youtu.be/v-RuDG7KCEw
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/v-RuDG7KCEw
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THE RUBIN REPORT
https://youtu.be/v-RuDG7KCEw
VIDEO EXCERPT: I don't think we should make it illegal for anyone under the age of 18 to be in a synthetic relationship -- to develop a relationship with a character AI that starts advising them.
Supposedly, one in three kids under the age of 18 are in something some form of a synthetic relationship online with someone who's a friend, a potential erotic partner. And I worry, Dave, that it reduces especially young men's mojo to take the risks to approach people and express Platonic and romantic interest, while making them feel safe.
And those skills, that rejection... See, you're a good-looking guy, so you've endured less rejection than most of us, but you have endured rejection.
I'm on Twitter. People say terrible things about me. It's okay.
But that's a little bit different. It's approaching someone you're attracted to and shooting your shot. It's sending in a resume or pitching an advertiser who quite frankly is out of your economic weight class.
And those skills, that willingness to endure rejection as opposed to deferring to a frictionless relationship, is sequestering people, especially young men, and not giving them the life skills they need.
Perseverance, how to open, how to talk to people, how to sell. And most importantly, the key skill in success, I believe, is the ability to endure rejection, to mourn and to move on, to develop those calluses.
45% of men ages 18 to 25 have never approached a woman in person to ask her out. I think that's really unhealthy.
All right, I'm Dave Rubin and joining me today is the host of the Prof G podcast and author of the new book, "Notes on Being a Man", Scott Galloway...
AI may have just killed this skill that men need to thrive ... https://youtu.be/v-RuDG7KCEw
