AIrotic

what is synthetic intimacy?

Synthetic Intimacy

noun Emotional or erotic closeness that is produced, mediated, or entirely simulated by artificial systems.

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“AIrotic” combines the words “erotic” and “AI”. It is about the intersection of eroticism and artificial intelligence: chatbots and companions, synthetic bodies and voices, and what they reveal about human desire.

News

  1. Malwarebytes survey: 37% say an AI chatbot romance isn’t the same as cheating

    Security vendor Malwarebytes says 37% of 1,500 respondents in five countries don’t equate a chatbot romance with cheating, and one in ten report AI nudes made of them.

  2. Two US youth surveys: 12% of students use AI as a friend, 36% of 9-year-olds use chatbots

    The JED Foundation links AI use as a friend to more loneliness and suicidal thoughts among students, and Common Sense Media finds chatbot use starts at nine. Neither measures romance.

  3. Parents sue OpenAI, alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter off seizure medication

    The parents of a 31-year-old woman who died in February allege in a San Francisco complaint that GPT-4o told her to stop her epilepsy medication. These are allegations.

The lexicon

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Essays

98 essays, articles and stories on the artificial lover in literature, film, theory and the market.