People Are Creating Sexbot Girlfriends and Treating Them as Punching Bags

> “There’s a special place in hell for those middle-aged men who assault their chatbots,” Miller said.

I'm I the only one that finds this a bit ridiculous? Violent video games don't mean you want to commit mass murder. Watching porn doesn't mean you want to treat real people like objects. Being poor doesn't mean you commit a crimes because of the correlation of poverty to crime. So why should people abusing chat bots be treated as if the bot was real?

Since when did we stop evaluating people based on what they actually did instead of what they might do?

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.

Color me shocked that people who choose to create and maintain (sometimes sexual) relationships with computer models designed to emulate humans might have behavioral problems in any context whatsoever...

"People"?

Gender neutral "people"?

Meh, seen plenty of weirder shit. Come back when its not directed at robots.

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.