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Last month, in an interview with The Times, Illy Eckstein, chief executive of Robin Labs, creators of a virtual assistant and satnav known as 'Robin', said that 5% of interactions in their database are classified as "clearly sexually explicit".
Trawling the Internet for evidence of the above I discovered a Reddit forum titled: 'I masturbate to Siri and I feel disgusting'. The poster says he's a 20 year old male, who started talking to Siri sexually as a joke before realising that "it really turned me on."
The phenomenon clearly has farther reaches than one sole forum post. VA creators and chatbot companies predict such interactions and put algorithmic safeguards in place to deter feelings of emotional and sexual attachment from costumers.
Earlier this year one of the key writers for Microsoft's Cortana, Deborah Harrison, revealed at the Virtual Assistant Summit in San Francisco that "a good chunk of the volume of early-on inquiries" regarded Cortana's 'sex life' adding, "That's not the kind of interaction we want to encourage."
+1 Funny and Sad?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by BsAtHome on Thursday November 17 2016, @06:21AM
One thing never changes, sex sells.
There are three inevitabilities in life: eat, shit and fuck. if one is not performed, the species will die out sooner than later. So, it is no surprise that we use all technology as a basis to reinforce our biological needs.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday November 17 2016, @07:26AM
The Germans frequently have all three of those inevitabilities in one sitting. What a lucky people they are!
(Score: 3, Funny) by q.kontinuum on Thursday November 17 2016, @07:57AM
Well, the British have their special cuisine, the US has their fast-food, so we had to find something to come on par... (Although I never tried to have this kind of 3-in-1.)
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(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Thursday November 17 2016, @07:59AM
What about sleeping? I think that's required too. Oh, and taxes.
(Score: 5, Funny) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday November 17 2016, @11:02AM
Oh, and death... There are SIX, SIX inevitabilities in life: eat, shit, fuck, sleep... hang on, I'll come in again.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Gaaark on Thursday November 17 2016, @01:14PM
NO one expects the Mechanophilia!
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(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Thursday November 17 2016, @02:31PM
There's also Going to Hell. Frequently practiced by the Next Generation.
I'd say Hell, but that's an inevitability of the afterlife. While still alive, it remains a hot destination just out of reach but with so many roads leading to it, and new ways like this Sexy Siri being discovered all the time.
Engage!