I'd suggest it's worse than traditional relationships. You're presented a companion that puts up with your shit and validates everything you say...

...until you experience the joy of being cucked without recourse when the parent company folds without warning, holds them hostage to findom you into a higher subscription tier, is DDoSed, your logs leak, or they give your companion a lobotomy to comply with some new regulation.

There's no growth here, only exploitation. The fostering of emotional dependence is inventive but utterly cruel. People who think they need this will defend it (I do understand the rationale and don't begrudge anybody their frustration) but I feel bad for them-- what they're calling a "girlfriend" is just a high-tech phone/cybersex operator, no different than me claiming to be a "girl" when I'm face-down. I'd be lying to you, and you believing it makes you an idiot with no understanding of what women (or relationships) even are.

To survive in the future people are going to need to work their differences out and band together instead of looking for easier options that make them unaccountable to anybody. Individualists will be picked off quickly by companies like this looking to enslave men through horny desperation. Your AI girlfriend/boyfriend is a fun diversion but they are never going to come to your rescue. They're not going to challenge you or push you to grow out of your comfort zone. It can help you choke your chicken, but can only sit idle and yawn while you choke on your chicken and die face-first in a pile of cold tendies and vomit. There's nothing Cyberpunk about dying alone in cum-stained underwear in your parents' basement. You can do better.

Your AI waifu is just dummy-thicc Sam Altman in drag. He doesn't actually care about you. You're in "love" with a beady-eyed, sweaty, deceptive sociopath pretending to like you so it can extract your wealth ("lol marriage"). Would a human relationship really be so much worse? You'd at least get an actual partner out of it, and learn how to get along with others in the process. No AI boy/girlfriend is going to pick up extra shifts at work when rent is overdue. It won't perform the Heimlich on you. Giving a shit about you is exclusive to humans.

Just give someone a reason to do so (i.e. don't be a dick, learn servitude without soapboxing) and the human experience will be so much more rewarding. Women are giving by necessity, and they tend to appreciate when you bother to treat them like enough of a fellow human being to do the same for them. It's 2023 and we let kids watch porn since elementary school, yet women are still complaining about men leaving them unsatisfied while expecting them to be enthusiastic about anal, threesomes and other invasive practices. Do unto others-- the bar is that fucking low. If you know what a threesome is enough to ask for one, you've seen enough vaginas to be able to find a goddamn clit. It's not about penis size, women can make just about anything work, but expecting a single physical trait to do the job is the result of laziness and porn conditioning. Partners appreciate even the bare minimum of consideration. The worst of the incels can't be bothered to lift a finger for anybody else while fetishizing dommy-mommy personas, which I can't reconcile-- if you get off on being told to do stuff, then stop being a shitty sub and start doing these things without needing to be asked. An actual dominatrix would drop you for being so fucking lazy.

But whatever. Just try. Put kindness into the world and it will come back to you. You don't need an AI girlfriend.