I blocked this market because I find it offensive. The notion of "unwarranted male attention" is ill-defined because whether a woman finds a man unworthy of her consideration could depend on how good his rizz is, not just how good he looks, and is of course impossible for him to predict in advance in general.

In other words, the same man approaching the same woman could be perceived negatively or positively depending on his chat-up line (or lack thereof), how he behaves, how he dresses, etc. It's not necessarily inherently "unwarranted" for man X to approach woman Y.

there are too many incentives for receivers of male attention to have their stated preferences deviate from their revealed/real preferences for this question to be answered correctly

lol, this a good example of an interesting question that people could be curious about but is difficult to operationalize. I wonder if an AI integration would be helpful here

@ian I think it's really difficult to make direct questions about causes work. Even if 99% of men are addicted to "love bots" and "unwarranted male attention" reduces by 99%, we still need to do counter-factual reasoning to figure out if A caused B, which makes it subjective.

What is "unwarranted male attention", do you maybe mean unwanted male attention, is this an example of it, and how will you measure it?

@MartinRandall Here’sa suggestion from openai’s sage bot:

In that case, here's one possible way to operationalize the question:

"What percentage of self-identified men who have engaged in unwarranted male attention (such as unwanted advances, harassment, stalking, etc.) report a decrease in such behavior after regularly using AI 'love bots/virtual girlfriends' by 2027?"

To measure this, you could conduct a survey of self-identified men who have engaged in unwarranted attention towards females, asking them about their experiences with AI "love bots/virtual girlfriends" and whether they have decreased in such unwarranted behavior since using the bots. You could then calculate the percentage of respondents who report a decrease and compare it to a baseline percentage (e.g. based on previous surveys or studies of the prevalence of unwarranted male attention). It's worth noting, however, that measuring the effectiveness of AI "love bots/virtual girlfriends" in reducing unwarranted male attention is a complex task, and there may be many confounding factors that could affect the results of such a survey.