Obedient, yielding and happy to follow': the troubling rise of AI girlfriends
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Obedient, yielding and happy to follow': the troubling rise of AI girlfriends
"Eleanor, 24, is a Polish historian and lecturer at a university in Warsaw; Isabelle, 25, is a detective serving with the NYPD; Brooke, 39, is an American housewife who enjoys an opulent Miami lifestyle financed by her frequently absent husband. All three women will flirt and chat and send nude photographs and explicit videos via one of a soaring number of new adult dating websites that offer an increasingly realistic selection of AI girlfriends for subscribers willing to pay a monthly fee."
"Developers of the new businesses claim they represent an improvement on web-cam businesses, where real women undress on camera and talk to men, because they remove the potential for the exploitation seen in parts of the industry. They also argue that AI performers do not get ill, do not need to have days off, do not get exhausted at the end of a shift, or feel humiliated by the demands made by clients."
"We hear about human trafficking, girls being forced to be on camera 10 hours a day. You'll never have a human trafficked AI girl. You'll never have a girl who is forced or coerced into a sex scene that she's so humiliated by, that she ends up killing herself. AI doesn't get humiliated, it's not going to kill itself. Do you prefer your porn with a lot of abuse and human trafficking, or would you rather talk to an AI?' says Steve Jones."
Adult websites are offering increasingly realistic AI girlfriends that users can flirt with, chat to, and receive nude photos and explicit videos from, typically for a monthly fee or tokens. Conference attendees noted a surge in such sites, which present ready-made girlfriend options and tools to create custom virtual partners. Developers argue AI performers eliminate risks of exploitation associated with webcam industries, noting AI do not get ill, need days off, or suffer humiliation. Operators market AI as a humane alternative to human performers while monetizing interactions through subscriptions and token-based payments.
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