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

A woman in her twenties has built a six-figure annual business by creating an AI chatbot trained on her personality and conversations, charging lonely men hundreds of dollars monthly for the illusion of an intimate relationship—raising sharp questions about whether parasocial AI services exploit human vulnerability or simply monetize it more honestly than social media ever did. The venture, which has drawn interest from major news outlets, exposes a thriving underground economy where artificial companionship commands the same price point as therapy, yet operates in a legal and ethical gray zone that regulators have barely begun to address. What began as a personal experiment has become a template: if one woman can earn $360,000 a year selling simulated intimacy, how many

Oddity Central·Jan 29