Will AI help or hurt the involuntary celibate (incel) culture that is on the rise.

The incel thing is, broadly speaking, due to shitty social standards that society sets on men, economic stressors, the severe alienation of modern living, especially in the US, and just... an unfathomable backlog of untreated mental health problems. Feminism actually has very little to do with it.

Shared social spaces are weaker than ever right now, so fewer people are making human connections which eventually lead to getting laid. The whole male thing of having to be emotionless isn't super compatible with having meaningful friendships; tons of guys are just discouraged from opening up by society. The other male social expectation of being a provider has also become increasingly unreachable as the economy has become more and more rigged against the working class.

And if you actually check out any of those incel spaces, it tends to reek of depressive, catastrophizing thought loops. People with rock bottom self esteem reaffirming their hopelessness to themselves and one another over and over, analyzing every imperfections in their bodies, inventing the world around them to be as stacked against them as possible (hence, the hypergamous woman myth).

As for whether AI will fix the problem, I sorta doubt that it will. I think it'll probably placate them and make them less violent, but at the end of the day, they'll be trying to substitute a human need for intimacy and closeness with a computer algorithm that stitches words together in a semi-plausible way.