Colloquially, the word "robot" always implies a certain amount of anthropomorphism. So no, I don't think a vibrator would count, as basically no vibrators on the market try to look human-like.

But that definitely is a weird difference between male and female sexuality - the sex toys women buy most are the very effective and utilitarian ones: Vibrator wands, Rabbits, Air pulse Vibrators etc.

While the most popular tools for men tend to focus on "realism"(?): Fleshlights, Sex Dolls, things like VR and POV porn. And I guess sex robots would fall into that category too in the future.

I can absolutely see the weirdness-factor of someone who is desperately trying to emulate a partner rather than just accept masturbation as a solo activity and optimize it from there 😬

This was my thought. Its the same way all our technology has grown. Honestly I think brain interfaces could eclipse robots like this before they are that great. As scary as that is.

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

You're into some weird shit but I respect it

Genius! It will sell even without the sex

Bear Metal

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.

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?

But FREE browsing! How revolutionary.

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

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.

I want to get off Mr. Bones Wild Ride.