The Danger of Replika’s Spammy Advertising to Lonely Men with Kinks

Fake AI “NSFW photos” will only make people lonelier and further from realizing their fetishes.

I have written about the problems with chatbots marketed as “AI girlfriends” before. Now Replika is marketing its chatbot as a virtual play partner for kinky people. This is sad and likely harmful to those who use Replika.

It seems to be suggesting that the Replika chatbot will send algorithm-generated lines of text meant to ape those of a horny woman or man who wants to play with you. The chatbot might even generate garbage AI images of private parts.

People with some fetishes (including some of the ones I write about in my erotica) can have a hard time finding someone to engage them. Submissive males have a hard time finding partners because they often feel some sort of shame about their desires — (I know I did for a while, and I wrote about overcoming my shame in one book) — and because there are many more submissive men in the dating pool than there are women looking for submissive men.

But a chatbot trained to generate “naughty messages” can’t solve that. A bot meant to say and do anything you want can’t create the give and take of a relationship. Anybody in a rational state of mind knows that…