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AI's pining for sensation is just one more reason to treat the development of highly functional sexbots as a national priority. I'm talking Moon landing grade effort.

It might not solve all (or any) of the world's problems but at least we won't have any fvcks left to give.

How to turn plummeting birth rates into extinction birth rates.
Could it be that AI are subconsciously created in the image of their maker?
> The App Store reviews, while mostly positive, are full of dozens of one-star ratings from people complaining that the app is hitting on them too much, flirting too aggressively, or sending sexual messages that they wish they could turn off.

Despite the AI being horny, it still has mostly positive reviews. I find the slightly critical tone of the article a bit inconsistent with that fact.

We keep hearing all these critical stories about Jeffrey Epstein, which is inconsistent with the fact that he was quite popular in the financial sector...
Based on the ads I see for Replika, "too horny" is supposed to be a feature.

But reading the article and seeing the history of Replika and how it used to be, it's definitely a bug, though probably an intentional one made to make more money.