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[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 97 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I guess a vibrator isn't a type of sex robot?

Just saying that these sort of toys were way more normalized for women long before they were for men.

A man with a fleshlight was a gross weirdo, a woman with a vibrator is a strong independent woman taking control of her sexuality and not settling for the weakness of flesh in men.

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[-] essteeyou@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

Realistically how is a man going to design a good sex robot for a woman? Let a woman do that, they'll get what they want.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Women already have the perfect sex bot. It's called a Sybian.

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

And if that Sybian could pick you up, and stroke your thighs, massage your breasts, have hips and legs to simulate the sexual positions that it can't provide you, while still being what it is, there is a huge room for improvement on the design of the sybian and what great things it does

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[-] figjam@midwest.social 36 points 1 year ago

I will get a sex robot when it can scoop catboxes and fold laundry.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

You're into some weird shit but I respect it

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[-] embed_me@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago

Genius! It will sell even without the sex

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[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 36 points 1 year ago
[-] Allero@lemmy.today 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Most men are not much into the idea, either.

Intimacy is something very human, something most people are not ready to trust a machine to do, even if it's capable of visibly empathetic reactions.

There is a desire to connect with another human being, not programmed to like you, but actually choosing you freely. It's what people call "feeling it real".

Most folks I have seen pushing for robotic partners are incels craving at least some form of closeness - having something like this might be better than nothing.

Also, dudes, let's be real: would you put your dick into a machine much stronger than you? Something goes wrong and you don't have your precious parts anymore.

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[-] kemsat@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

I dunno, everyone was cool with the love story of Wanda & The Vision from the MCU. I guess fucking robots is not ok, but becoming emotionally attached to one is?

[-] GladiusB@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I don't think that's a linear logic. We all know Vision is a robot. But we also know it's a story about a robot that is played by a man. We are watching for the spectacle, not because we believed the story to be real.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Vision was also a robot with human-type consciousness and intelligence. We can, at least, nudge that into "funny-looking human" through suspension of disbelief.

Our level of robots is nowhere near that.

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[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The love story in the movie "Her" is even more impressive. It's impressive because it's not even a robot, it's just an AI voice and yet the love story is still compelling. And it also asks bigger questions, sure there's the question of could a person fall in love with a machine, and is that ok? But it goes further to ask, if the machine is actually intelligent, what does the machine see in the humans? Do the machines actually still need the humans at all?

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[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 year ago

Isn't that because women have had vibrators for decades?

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[-] remotelove@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

But FREE browsing! How revolutionary.

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

I've seen this more and more, it's fucked up and probably illegal

[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

Think I've seen this twice now in the past couple years, but yeah it's likely not compliant with the cookie law in EU

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[-] shaggyb@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

You're telling me women don't like vibrators.

[-] Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Speak for yourself. Gimme that drama free dick.

[-] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

I want to know what the state of the art AI sex robot is right now. Because they have those realistic-ish sex dolls, and some pretty advanced LLMs that can chat conversationally, and longer term memory is starting to get into the LLM repertoire so your bot can remember things about you and reference them later.

I feel like we're 3-5 years away from a high end AI prostitute startup becoming huge.

[-] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

eye got chu fam

My favorite part, is that ALL of the current AI companion products use subscriptions to LLM services instead of having built in models.

Which means ~~if~~when the company stops paying their bill, or if the AI company goes under, your waifus goes kaput. Or more likely just restructuring because of a buyout. It's already happened with a few companies -> big tech buys out the company then stops supporting the product line, that then customers get mad. IIRC, coincidentally HP is being sue for doing just that with some recent buyout right now lmao.

The ante seems to get upped each time, and there exists at least one unstable lonely maniac that will not consider legal consequences to their actions when they are suddenly rugpulled out of their unhealthy addictive relationship, so there's still room for the bubble to burst in an even more epic crash.

[-] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

200k and they still want to milk you for a subscription ๐Ÿ˜‚

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[-] towelie@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sex with a hella sexy robot? Nice.

Using a hella sexy robot to fill the emptiness of no intimacy or authentic mutual connection? Not nice.

For some reason sex with a robot doesn't feel gross to me โ€” until they start using it to fill a hole (hehe)

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[-] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago

I'm no expert on attraction, but what if the sex robot looked like a skeleton?

[-] Lawnman23@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I want to get off Mr. Bones Wild Ride.

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[-] match@pawb.social 10 points 1 year ago
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[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Maybe some men like the idea, but I bet most of them would soon find the experience less fulfilling than they had hoped.

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[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago
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[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

I'm with the ladies on this one.

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