Scott Galloway

a better you or desire for better you.

I want to look better.

I want to work out.

I want to smell nice.

I want to groom.

I want to have a plan.

I want to dress well.

I want to take risks.

I want to demonstrate kindness.

So the idea of a combination of erotic content with the character AI and synthetic relationship capabilities of these companies, I think is a fucking disaster.

because the first time a 14 year old male gets shunned by a 14 year old girl, which is part of growing up because women have a much finer filter for mating opportunities because the downside of sex is so much greater.

I mean, if you're a dude and you wanna have women in your life and you want romantic opportunities, that involves one thing, rejection and hopefully resilience.

And what I worry about is the first signs of rejection

a 14-year-old, a 15-year-old, 16-year-old boy starts turning to this awesome synthetic AI that looks like the hottest girl you've ever met, who will tease you just enough and then start showing you private parts and then let you engage in a series of erotic synthetic experiences that are low friction, low risk, and quite frankly, just reduce the fires.

Well, there's basically three ways to make money on the Internet.

There's ads, there's e-commerce, and there's porn.

And the problem or one of the issues with porn is that there's very little peer review research because the majority of academics don't want to be known as the porn professor.

Yeah.

There you go.

I'm not going to touch that one.