Technology

60052 readers

2816 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

126

The AI sexbot industry is just getting started. It brings strange new questions – and risks. (theconversation.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

32 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The biggest danger with allowing people to do whatever they want to a sex bot is that it has the possibility to encourage dangerous behavior in some people to the point where they are comfortable doing it to a real person.

This tired old argument gets trotted out with every new technology and hobby. D&D, Video games, VR, etc etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

While I agree that there's is always some sort of fear mongering with new tech as you said, I don't think they compare to what we're talking about. D&D is a tabletop game based on a magical world of various races, monsters, demons, etc. It's also obviously just a game.

Video games, especially violent ones that are vilified by the media, are still obviously just games played on a screen. VR is getting closer to "real life", but is still played on a headset, so there is still a divide between in-game and real life.

With sex bots, they are physical things that are made to look and act like real people. That separation between imagination and real-world isn't there anymore. For all intents and purposes, once the bot is on and functional it is as close to a real person as technology can create. Now, this tech is not yet a reality. But I foresee that future in the next few years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

For all intents and purposes, (...) as close to a real person as technology can create.

Again, I point you towards video games and how they got blamed for violence. You could have used the same statement about them 20 years ago.