Depressed and Lonely? There Could Be a Robotic Sex Partner in Your Future

https://programming.dev/post/28819123

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Lemmy

Just the thought of sex robots depressed me even more than the state of the world already had.
Why? People are already having sex with devices (vibrators, masturbators, real-dolls). I don't see why this is all that different

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.

It is probably unhealthy in a very similar way to parasocial relationships with celebrities are if people take those too far.