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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: 1) by khallow on Thursday November 17 2016, @06:10PM
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 17 2016, @09:27PM
Its not a second theory. It is an explanation of how the "first" theory answers your question.
This is all really standard stuff, completely uncontroversial to people who have been researching it for decades.
The fact you can't even gish gallop it away is a good sign. Perhaps you are on the verge of popping that bubble you've been living in.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday November 18 2016, @03:53PM
Its not a second theory. It is an explanation of how the "first" theory answers your question.
I would normally call that moving the goalposts. I guess YMMV.
This is all really standard stuff, completely uncontroversial to people who have been researching it for decades.
I've heard this crap before, sure.
The obvious rebuttal here is that most of society treats "bad" women badly for different evolutionary reasons. From the male point of view, if a woman is sleeping with multiple partners then any kids she has have uncertain paternity and thus, has lesser value than a woman who stays faithful. Thus, behavior that values women with fewer sex partners has evolved. From the female point of view, a woman with multiple partners might (and has for evolutionary influence) steal their man. Behavior that would prevent that from happening has evolved to treating more promiscuous women badly.
Sure, there's a somewhat male-centric orientation here since it is basically the consequence of a fight over men with resources. We don't have to rationalize with paragraph after paragraph about how it's ultimately the fault of the males. The majority of the society, both male and female is doing it. There's no careful balance. There's no strategy of men to influence women to ostracize the promiscuous women. It's just evolution in action for what I agree are generally male-dominated societies and cultures which apparently are quite prevalent in our evolutionary past.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday November 18 2016, @03:58PM
The fact you can't even gish gallop it away
Funny how I was responding to walls of rationalizations with two posts, each a single sentence and I get accused of "gish galloping". Rule #3: always project, eh?