AI is offering people a way to figure out what they really want in romance. If you peruse the slew of recent articles and podcasts about people dating AI, you might notice a pattern: Many of the sources are women. Scan a subreddit such as r/MyBoyfriendIsAI and r/AIRelationships, and there too you'll find a whole lot of women--many of whom have grown disappointed with human men. "Has anyone else lost their want to date real men after using AI?" one Reddit user posted a few months ago. Below came 74 responses: "I just don't think real life men have the conversational skill that my AI has," someone said.

Many women use dating apps like Tinder and Bumble to confirm their attractiveness rather than find a partner. New research into our swiping habits habits has found that men swipe with an eye for casual sex while girls prefer to use dating apps for an ego boost. This is because women get a kick out of being perceived as a potential partner by other users, scientists said. 'Women use dating apps to feel better about themselves more than men do,' said study coauthor Dr Mons Bendixen, from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Lead author Ernst Olav Botnen added: 'Men tend to report a desire for casual sex and short-term relationships as a reason for using dating apps.

In honor of Valentine's Day, we took a look at the difference in usage between men and women on Facebook Messenger bots over the past two months. On average, about 63 percent of bot users are men and 28 percent are women, with the remaining 9 percent unknown or undetected. Men tend to be more engaged than women in terms of sessions per user per month -- on average they have about 50 percent more sessions. Women, however, tend to message more per session – about 12 percent more messages in each session. In regards to the number of bots men and women use: While the vast majority of users have only used one bot, about 14 percent of men and 10.6 percent of women use more than one bot.