China’s sex doll industry is embracing AI, creating interactive companions for a growing market. Though promising intimacy, technical and legal hurdles remain.

  • @555
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    425 months ago

    They never have any male sexbots. 🙄

    Where are you, Gigolo Joe?

    • MrScottyTay
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      635 months ago

      Where’d he come from Where did he go, where’s the sexbot: Gigolo Joe?

    • HubertManne
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      205 months ago

      "Starpery’s CEO, Evan Lee, announced earlier this month that these AI-powered companions will come in both male and female forms. "

    • @Pacmanlives
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      Article says male and female dolls.

      Also girls have so many toys already, mean while use dudes are stuck with lotion and our right hand and sometimes you sit on your left hand till it gets tingly and then rub one out. It’s called the stranger

    • Jesus
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      45 months ago

      Joe? I want Deuce.

  • @jordanlund
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    "Starpery’s vision extends beyond companionship. Their roadmap includes:

    Developing versatile robots capable of tackling household chores.

    Assisting individuals with disabilities.

    Providing much-needed aged care."

    “No, no… see… it’s not a ‘sexbot’, it does the cleaning too!”

    “This is not the argument you think it is…”

      • @Maggoty
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        65 months ago

        Only if you pay for the premium version.

        • @sensiblepuffin
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          45 months ago

          With the free trial, it actively creates messes to incentivize you to upgrade.

  • Altima NEO
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    165 months ago

    Yeah but where can one import these… for a friend?

    • HubertManne
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      125 months ago

      Well I don’t want something like that in my country so I to need to know and after I verify its really being imported and make sure it functions the way I think it does then Im going to make quite the petition I tell you what.

  • @[email protected]
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    165 months ago

    If I’m going to have a sexy maid robot she needs to fold laundry and clean litterboxes too.

  • @Treczoks
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    145 months ago

    Wait until the first customer gets his dick squeezed to mush due to a “software error”…

      • @Treczoks
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        55 months ago

        For those who like this kind of action… Which makes me wonder: If the Sex puppet has a software problem, is it still consenting?

  • kingthrillgore
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    Do I have trust issues when I have to ask where the AI is gonna store our conversations, dick measurements, fetishes, turn-ons, times I start crying during copulation, times I stop crying during copulation, desires in life, and preferred types of lingerie; or are there legitimate infosec considerations?

  • DarkThoughts
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    95 months ago

    Do those sex dolls have replacement genitals or do people just pay thousands of bucks for what’s essentially a throwaway item?

    • @Dearth
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      65 months ago

      Realdolls have removable washable and replaceable bits. I imagine these do as well

        • @AnUnusualRelic
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          75 months ago

          I suppose there’s a little tank that you can fill if you really want tears.

    • @Cort
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      35 months ago

      You get what you pay for?

      • DarkThoughts
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        Doesn’t matter if you pay 50 or 5000 bucks. Male sex toys are suffering from wear & tear like crazy. Ask how many dildos a women managed to destroy in comparison.

        • @TheGrandNagus
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          35 months ago

          I think that’s just the nature of male sex toys needing to be made out of a much softer material, unfortunately.

    • Gormadt
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      445 months ago

      You really shouldn’t be raw dogging the Internet

      Use protection, use an ad blocker

      • umami_wasabi
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        75 months ago

        I’m. I’m counting the ad placeholders which there would be ads.

    • th3dogcow
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      65 months ago

      Zero here for me. You using an ad blocker?

  • @db2
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    75 months ago

    The Outer Limits 1995 episode about this didn’t end too well.

    • @[email protected]
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      “The pursuit of technology exists to make human life easier and more pleasurable, but once such forces intrude upon the most intimate parts of our lives, we then forfeit our very soul.”- Kevin Conway aka The Control Voice

      The Outer Limits was fucking awesome!