Given the development of robotics and AI it's very likely in the next 20 years or so we will see some good and fairly affordable life like robot girlfriend (though they will probably only be affordable to upper middle class and up so gotta money max). And that could basically replace the feeling people get off being loved. And I would say it's pretty similar because if you buy into a fully materailisic view of the world us humans don't actually have souls. We are just biological machines made up of different components responding to inputs and outputs which can lead to happy or sad chemicals.
Now given that is established because consciousness itself or souls aren't real that would mean ai isn't much different to a human in general (which is just responding based off influences like how a LLM responds to prompts). So given that and the technology is real enough you could probably immerse yourself in that enough for it to basically work if you accept those premises. The only reason it doesn't work now is not because it's not "real" because as established humans are also just biological machines but because it doesn't mimick human input enough. So basically the conclusion is it will be a good cope and it's coming evauntally most likely given advancements in robotics and AI.
Now given that is established because consciousness itself or souls aren't real that would mean ai isn't much different to a human in general (which is just responding based off influences like how a LLM responds to prompts). So given that and the technology is real enough you could probably immerse yourself in that enough for it to basically work if you accept those premises. The only reason it doesn't work now is not because it's not "real" because as established humans are also just biological machines but because it doesn't mimick human input enough. So basically the conclusion is it will be a good cope and it's coming evauntally most likely given advancements in robotics and AI.
