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And AI boyfriends for females.

If you check apps like character.ai or similar there is a huge roster of male AI characters to chat with. I think this is less skewed for male users than the porn content.

It's a cliché but men want sex and women want romance.

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Romance novels are porn. Go to a bookstore and pick up something like "Love's Tender Fury", or "Fury's Tender Love", or "Tender Love's Fury". Open it to 2/3 of the way through. There will be a six-page sex scene.

There are how-to guides on writing that stuff. That industry is probably going to be crushed by AI-generated romance novels. Although someone needs to figure out how to keep long-form AI writing on plot. LLMs tend to run on forever and drift.

How can a novel compete with an interactive character that provides a roleplay conversation "a la carte" adjusting to the user and their preferences?

You want a dominant partner, maybe an initialy cold guy that hides his passionate heart, or just the sweetest more caring girlfriend in the world...? You can have it, just describing what you want in a simple text prompt.

Now let's jump ahead and imagine something a little more intelligent that adapts to the to user. Maybe 100% caring but just a little cold on specific days... with a little pinch of a fight and the following making up... a perfect storm of emotional adiction (and a lot of money to be made)

I'm both horrified and curious about the future that is coming.

The novel competes because good writers are substantially better than bad writers, and LLMs are bad writers. They [LLMs] may be able to write a coherent chat message or email, but a story? Not a chance.

I think they disputed your claim:

> It's a cliché but men want sex and women want romance.

...suggesting you actually check what the "romance" actually is :)