Connor Leshner
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130 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 18 Feb
Connor Leshner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I did some research back in the 2020s-ish era, the COVID era, everything blends together, looking at robots and how men are more interested in perhaps more intimate connection with robots, while women are more interested in robots as friends.
And so what we wanted to do here is we were interested in understanding, well, if it's a fictional character who only exists on a screen, are these patterns similar?
And if so, that says a lot about how we approach these fictional characters as potentially real people, whether now or in the future, especially with AI.
But yeah, I digress.
Men are really interested...
over and above women when it comes to physical traits.
So when they're searching for a character that they're interested in, they will prioritize generally this physical attractiveness, the traits of the character that they're physically attracted to.
While women, they're thinking more of these personality traits.
Before they consider the physical traits at all, the thing that they consider most important to these relationships is this personality.
Do they like the personality of the character?
Is this a character that can see themselves
spending time around.
We have more research going on about whether this matches the more intimate versus platonic dynamic versus just having this close affinity for this relationship.
But so far, what we've seen is that it tends to match that expectation.
Ah, see, I think that's a that has to be a person by person experience.
So what I would what I would say to that is I think that the love you feel toward a fictional character like a real person is going to be strong, it's going to be important, and it's going to be meaningful, it's going to be a character like, on any television show, we've all probably seen a show that we like a lot, we want the characters to succeed.
And and that type of affinity for the character is something that we'd probably see around like a
friend or a partner or a child where it's like, oh, I really want this person to succeed in what they're doing.
And a lot of what we tend to see here is that while these characters are targets of love, at least as defined by the individual, people have this genuine care for this character, whether or not it would replace like a marriage or a relationship.
I'm not convinced at this moment for that.
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