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The AI sexbot industry is just getting started. It brings strange new questions – and risks. (theconversation.com)

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[–] abrinael 68 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This entire block is baffling to me:

Users aren’t entirely blameless, either. There’s something vicious about replacing a real human being with a totally submissive lust machine.

Early studies suggest narcissism is prevalent among users of this technology. Normalising harmful sexual behaviours such as rape, sadism or paedophilia is bad news for society.

All of this made me think people using these bots were found to be narcissistic in the linked study and seems to connect this with the listed harmful sexual behaviors. Instead, the linked study found that attitudes toward digital immortality (specifically through creation of AI bots that can live on after your death) are linked to narcissistic personality traits. This seems entirely unrelated to the topic and it seems manipulative to throw it in there like this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Good catch! Thanks for checking the source.