There was a book. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. The AI update is this: AI boyfriends are from China, AI girlfriends from America.
That line sounds like a meme. It isn’t. It is an accurate description of how two superpowers have ended up exporting very different kinds of digital intimacy, using largely the same technology, but embedding it in radically different social anxieties, gender politics, and state priorities.
