Experts urge ethical care as AI transforms digital intimacy
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Generative AI is enabling new forms of digital sex and intimacy, from chatbots to AI-enabled sex toys, raising ethical questions around consent, emotional wellbeing, and human connection.
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Virtual partners like OnlyFans models and girlfriends created by AI are growing in popularity, with some bringing these relationships into the physical world through advances in robotics.
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AI is making its way into sex toys and apps, offering personalized and customized sexual experiences that could become addictive or distort real-life expectations.
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Experts warn that always-available and perfectly pleasing AI partners may compromise people's ability to form reciprocal human relationships built on mutual consent and respect.
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While AI enables potential therapeutic applications, ethical guardrails are needed to ensure responsible development that avoids past harms linked to the proliferation of online pornography.