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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: 2) by quintessence on Thursday November 17 2016, @07:18AM
Further it is common for people to build attachments to things that they favor (you think the guy adding the 50th layer of wax to his Delahaye doesn't have a sexual component). Some otaku might be the extreme expression, but it isn't like it is unprecedented.
As better VR and the like start coming to the fore, I expect more of this to cloud the nature of relationships.
There was a case I read of a monk who had no access to porn, so all of his sexual interests was directed towards cars to a point where he had no sexual interests towards humans at all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 17 2016, @07:29AM
That just had to be painful if the car was recently driven. Like what else is there to insert your thing into except the exhaust pipe?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 17 2016, @07:39AM
Gas tank
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 17 2016, @07:40AM
Like what else is there to insert your thing into except the exhaust pipe?
Between the seats?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 17 2016, @07:42AM
You know, I never really inquired much further, except to note there as an extensive attempt to reimprint him with something more approachable ("make the motorboat noise again") as he was leaving the order into public life
This also got me thinking about the attempts to "convert" homosexuals that were in vogue at the time, how this might apply to pedophiles, people who have a fetish for greys (as in alien); and decide there are probably a whole host of other paraphilias I'm more comfortable not knowing too much about.
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday November 17 2016, @10:57AM
Who says he has to be the inserter rather than the insertee? Maybe the car had a {suggestive eyebrow waggle} manual transmission.