For years, anxious and lonely men – and women -- have despaired over their prospects for ever finding a love partner. For those wallowing in misery – or
At least dildos and fleshlights don’t pretend to be anything more than a toy. No one is that emotionally invested in their sex toys. They serve a physical purpose and that’s kinda it.
When you get into real-dolls and using this type of AI. There are mental health issues that are not helped and probably worsened by the existence of these things. Human connections to non-“real” things is weird af. It’s a one-sided relationship until the AI is capable of breaking up and leaving not just getting powered down and restarted.
A good question to ask yourself is whether I’d the tool or the software. A bot using AI to me is not that different from trying to have an intimate connection with an AI without the hardware.
And this already exists. people are already using AI to accidentally or purposely create friendship or romantic partner substitutes.
Suggesting it’s outsourcing relationships is a bit of a leep. Early adopters using this are going to be using this as a replacement for prostitution which is already generally illegal or a replacement for isolate masturbation
At least dildos and fleshlights don’t pretend to be anything more than a toy. No one is that emotionally invested in their sex toys. They serve a physical purpose and that’s kinda it.
When you get into real-dolls and using this type of AI. There are mental health issues that are not helped and probably worsened by the existence of these things. Human connections to non-“real” things is weird af. It’s a one-sided relationship until the AI is capable of breaking up and leaving not just getting powered down and restarted.
A good question to ask yourself is whether I’d the tool or the software. A bot using AI to me is not that different from trying to have an intimate connection with an AI without the hardware.
And this already exists. people are already using AI to accidentally or purposely create friendship or romantic partner substitutes.
I don’t disagree that it exists but I’m against purposefully expanding it. “People already have colds why not spread the flu?”
We’ve already outsourced our creativity and now we’re outsourcing our relationships? It’s just so abhorrent to me.
Suggesting it’s outsourcing relationships is a bit of a leep. Early adopters using this are going to be using this as a replacement for prostitution which is already generally illegal or a replacement for isolate masturbation
It is probably unhealthy in a very similar way to parasocial relationships with celebrities are if people take those too far.