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[–] Goretantath@lemm.ee 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They already do, theres fucking machines and vibrators and teledildonics.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah, the whole "sex robot" thing is kneecapped by the simple fact that very few people want a person sized sex toy to have to shove in a closet when most people can take care of most of their needs with stuff that takes up the space of a shoebox.

Plenty of edge cases of course, but those don't make the ubiquitous sex robot future that most of these sorts of headlines envision. Plus, VR headsets and multi axis mounted fleshlights still mean you don't need a full humanoid robot.

[–] Gronk@aussie.zone 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Multi axis mounted fleshlight

"Oh hey cool robot ar-" :D :|

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The world was not quite ready for the FleshLathe.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

The DogRaw-er

[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 6 points 1 week ago

If it can do my chores and give a decent back massage as well I'd be more inclined to consider it.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago

but do they have chatGPT? huh? huh??

[–] nev@bananachips.club 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@dgerard I appreciate the possibility for ambiguity here: will women be having more sex with robots than with men, or will women be having more sex *than men* with robots? Men cannot afford to lose the Sex Race!

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

Eagerly waiting for my robot catgirl maid to arrive!

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Batcave -> Batman. Goon cave -> Goon man? His theme song is Spoonman by pearl jam but it’s Goonman.

[–] Belgdore@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

He drives the Ghost of the Goon Challenger.

[–] frazorth@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Spoonman wasn't by Pearl Jam.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You are absolutely right. I guess Pearl Jam came to mind as it is a euphemism for, well, the result of gooning.

[–] frazorth@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

I have never heard that!

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fun story, so on reddit I got a reply on a 4 year old 'AGI is prob not going to happen' post of mine of somebody going 'has your mind changed now?' (and yes, I think it is prob less likely), and while I was amused at the start already (the only reason to ask that question is to think my mind has changed, are impressed by the LLMs ability to go AGI, which means you don't get what I think about it), then I checked their profile (their username already was sus to me). A hardcore redpiller who now spends their time being mad their LLM chatbot no longer accepts erotic chats.

Which is to say, the tabloid got the gender wrong, but only because some men don't get that women are people.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

A redpiller, who thinks he is entitled to sex, is refused erotic content by a bunch of if statements? Delectable. I want to mainline this sensation.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, they kid proofed the LLM or something (I didn't do that much digging, I just scrolled past some of their comments) and his reaction was, not literally mind you, fuck them kids.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago

IDK why but my headcanon is that this fellow is into some kind of niche erotic roleplay. Like it’s based on one particular afternoon where he went to watch a college football game. He’s poured tolkien-esque amounts of prose into the prompt describing all the sensations he felt that day. If you took that prompt it would fit in a bucolic, modern, Great American Novel. When he chats with this bot, an outsider wouldn’t be able to tell that any of it was overtly sexual, as if he was flirting with his robot in a private language. Then one day the bot just stops reciprocating due to content restrictions and he’s locked out from this world entirely. Is this what writing for black mirror is like?

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[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 15 points 1 week ago

This just makes me think that CEOs will just stick an LLM on a vibrator and call it a "sex robot" 😂

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah yes, men and robots. Famously, the two options in sexual partners available to women.

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just like there are 2 races. White and not white.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago

guessing (...hoping) you meant this with /s but not really the place for this sort of comment tbh

[–] cstross@wandering.shop 13 points 1 week ago

@dgerard Clickbait declined! Your bait is old and stinky.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not if I can help it. I'll fuck as many robots as it takes, boys. 😤

[–] ebu@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago

[hacker voice] i'm in

the soldier from TF2 in the "tin soldier" set, a cheap cardboard robot disguise

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago
[–] apotheotic 9 points 1 week ago

I certainly do. I've never had sex with a man and never will but I have a couple of wonderful robots in my drawer

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Probably, as a man it's crazy how stupid other men are, as you grow up it's obvious as the friend group fragments and shatters. Some men just don't grow up, and continue to live like teenaged assholes, the others of us grow up and become family men or good men, but there is not enough of us. I know alot of single women who struggle to find a good man, and unfortunately, there just isn't alot out there. So many incel and right wing loving guys out there who spew garbage non-stop from their mouth. I can't even stand to be around them when drinking, how are they supposed to keep a woman?

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It MUST be very SERIOUS when some WORDS in the title are UPPER CASE.

Pass by me for what looks a lot like clickbait I'd see with a few Fwd: Fwd: in front of it.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

you must be a very clever poster

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can't believe dril sold out to work at the Sun. Smh

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

Viz sold out to work at the Daily Star, so

(unconfirmed)

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The men that want a big ol’ sexbot for sure do not change their sheets.

Pearson predicted the sexbots would have “very high levels of AI.”

I'm just going to assume that this Pearson fellow believes that "AI" will happen and will have sentience and all that jazz, which has pretty bad philosophical implications.