AI-Powered ‘Perfect Girlfriend’ Earns $30,000 per Month from Lonely Men

A young woman in Southeast Asia has built a six-figure annual business by selling personalized AI chatbots designed to mimic her as a romantic partner, exploiting a growing market of isolated men willing to pay hundreds of dollars monthly for algorithmically-generated intimacy. The operation raises thorny questions about the psychology of parasocial relationships in the age of artificial intelligence and whether platforms profiting from such services bear any responsibility for their users' emotional wellbeing. What began as a side hustle has become a blueprint for a potentially massive industry—one that exists in a regulatory gray zone while reshaping how loneliness itself becomes monetized.

Oddity Central·Jan 29