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Reminds me of this article: https://bloodknife.com/everyone-beautiful-no-one-horny/

That's a great article. However with AI, I suspect the tech is being sexualized in a sterile, mechanical, A/B tested way that results in bots saying very horny things with a monotone, dead-eyed delivery (metaphorically).

Cashing in on loneliness is big business. Singles bars. OKCupid. Half of the self-improvement/self-help world.

I don't deny it's big business. I guess I could have been clearer: replacing human contact with an AI simulacrum on a subscription basis gives me an icky feeling. IIRC, there a dating app that used bots to chat with men to make it seem like there were more women active on the app than there really were? That was also gross.

Can you imagine AI waifus pushing ads / propaganda on behalf of the highest bidder? Yuck.

"the Dolores iOS app went live" - his subconscious suggested a good name. Mater Dolorosa is Mother of Sorrows in Latin.

It's named after the android character from Westworld, who was created to suffer whatever the guests wanted to do to her.