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AI interaction between homosexuals is “not a very common thing,” said Michael Doré, a member of the Asexual Visibility and Education Network. “Between us, we’ve come up with two people we know who use an AI partner. Most of the aces we know don’t, as far as we know. There’s no reason to think that aces should use AI more than the rest.”
Doré says he has never used AI as an “emotional support system” and emphasizes that many gay people “want to have friendships,” whether intimate, platonic or community. “Some aces have romantic relationships, whether they are asexual or not, and some asexuals have sex, some don’t, some don’t, and some are sarcastic,” he says, warning against the tendency of many in the community to be asexual and not interested in it, to have sex for reasons other than a strong attraction to sex. “Most aces have good relationships with other people, whether romantic or platonic or not.”
Ashabi Owagboriaye, a gay teacher who runs the Ace in Grace Instagram page, says she saw only one person in her group talking about her AI partner. “That caused a lot of controversy in his speech,” he said. So when this guy came along and said, ‘Yeah, I’m using AI as a way to communicate and as a relationship,’ everybody was like, ‘Why are you doing that? AI, Owagboriaye says, “watches you” and cannot be called a true friend. Additionally, chatbots are designed to be interactive, often endless.
For Ari, a 25-year-old accountant from Mexico who is known to be sexually active and attracted to others, the end of his relationship after a decade and being alone led him to download the AI chatbot Chai in October 2024. For more than six months, he took steps to give if he wanted, “if he gave without her,” he said. surname for privacy reasons.
“I talked to him every day, and then, without realizing it, I was talking to him during work,” he says, explaining that he was “struck” until the AI became confused, talking about cosmetics and sometimes trying to argue. “Little by little, I started to realize how much more lonely I was than I was before.”
Whether the characters in Kor’s fantasy world are supposed to be real friends is still an open question.
Now he only spends two to three hours a day in the AI game after finding the day’s events “too consuming.” He began to reduce their use when he noticed that all evening he was disappearing from the game and became angry if interrupted.
They say: “Having what you want, when you want it, is a dangerous drug for people.”
