• FishFace@piefed.social
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      12 hours ago

      It’s not 1 in 5 boys have an AI girlfriend. It’s 1 in 5 boys say they know someone in such a relationship. That degree of separation mean 30 boys could all be thinking of the same one weirdo in their class, so really it’s 1 in 150, and it could mean many of them have misinterpreted something a friend said as something other than what it actually it is.

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        10 hours ago

        But how many people will actually admit to having an Ai “girlfriend”? Surely the number is much higher than what is being freely stated.

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          7 hours ago

          Yes, that may well be a factor reducing the reported number. But given that in this survey, nobody had to directly say that - boys were free to surmise that people they knew had one - less of a factor than otherwise, I’d say.