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For a peek behind the modern equivalent of this checkout this podcast ep on the behind the scenes of using AI to create NSFW chatbots - https://www.latent.space/p/nsfw-chatbots

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> often users know that they are not talking to a person, but choose to ignore it.

Keep telling yourself that to sleep soundly at night while scamming lonely people, Jesse.

You’d be surprised, there’s a few big chatbot sites dedicated to simulating relationships and they are quite explicit about what is is. There are entire subreddits full of people obsessively talking about their relationships with AI chatbot gf/bf (yes both genders post). It’s quite the insight into the human psyche.

Many of these sites aren't scams. They proclaim loudly and proudly "chat with an AI sex bot" and people sign up for that.

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