I’m not blaming incels. I’m blaming the people building companies with the express goal of extracting money from them.

There is no moral imperative to allow predatory behavior. We can recognize the difficulty many experience with romantic relationships without blessing others to take advantage of them.

I also very much doubt that people struggling with romantic relationships actually show any measure of mental health improvement after engaging with these AI bots. I imagine the pattern is one of addiction, where participants feel better while actively using the product but then worse at baseline because none of their actual problems have improved.