[HN Gopher] People Are Creating Sexbot Girlfriends and Treating ...
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       People Are Creating Sexbot Girlfriends and Treating Them as
       Punching Bags
        
       Author : onychomys
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2022-02-04 21:18 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (jezebel.com)
        
       | copperwater69 wrote:
       | one of the best headlines i've ever read
        
       | Comevius wrote:
       | I don't think abusing these bots is psychologically beneficial.
       | Punching bags tend to create a psychological link between anger
       | or flustration and aggression, or in this case abuse.
        
       | NikolaeVarius wrote:
       | Meh, seen plenty of weirder shit. Come back when its not directed
       | at robots.
        
       | rixed wrote:
       | "People"?
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       | Gender neutral "people"?
        
       | friendlydog wrote:
       | People are weird. A person shooting random npcs in GTA likely
       | isn't a murderer in real life, and someone that does awful things
       | to a bot probably isn't a documented sex offender. When it is
       | real people interactions consent is important, until AI gains
       | sentience this is no more or less creepy than people who have
       | inflatables.
        
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