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AI Startup Says It Will Pay People $2k a Month to Masturbate

34 points by ajay-d 4mo ago

root-parent 4mo ago
This is another job H1Bs will do for half the price.
bitwize 4mo ago
Just when you thought Juicero was the bottom of the silly valley barrel... a startup called Joi offers JOI by AI
romaniitedomum 4mo ago
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flextheruler 4mo ago
I've started looking at profiles of the non-technical "AI at any cost" people on Reddit and noticed a trend towards AI generated NSFW posts and anime. Unsurprisingly they tend to have zero tolerance towards accepting legitimate criticisms or concerns. After reading about the blackmail a school system in the UK faced because criminals took a public post of 10 year old soccer players and generated sexual child abuse materials with the real girls faces it's in everyones best interests to not post their children's images until or unless we can regulate this behavior. https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/family-and-parenting/2026/05/deepfake-sextortion-forces-schools-to-remove-student-photos-from-websites https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/family-and-parenting/2026/... "By November 2025, IWF reports of AI-generated CSAM had more than doubled year over year, rising from 199 to 426. Girls accounted for 94% of the victims. Reported cases included children ranging from newborns to two-year-olds, according to the organization. The ecosystem around these tools is industrial. In April 2025, a researcher found an exposed AWS S3 bucket belonging to South Korean “nudify” app GenNomis containing 93,485 AI-generated images alongside the prompts that produced them."
- 0cf8612b2e1e 4mo ago
  What more regulation needs to happen? Real or synthetic CSAM is already illegal. Adding another law that is effectively, “Same thing as the previous ones, but this time the generator is a LLM, not Photoshop”.
  - thatguy0900 4mo ago
    They want the regulation to be that Ai models cannot produce such images at all, not that producing them is illegal
    - zamalek 4mo ago
      You'd have to have a model that has never seen children, which is perfectly fine, but I can't see any of those with the resources to train such a model form scratch actually doing so.
      - _aavaa_ 4mo ago
        Wouldn’t help. You just ask for a short adult with slightly different proportions.
        cyanydeez 4mo ago
        Guys, it's always the victims fault. Grift Economy 101. No way to prevent this says Grift Economists for the 928401st time. Better write another check to big business.
        Yiin 4mo ago
        they're not wrong though
dpark 4mo ago
> Joi AI is an online platform that includes AI-generated avatars, voice interactions, and personalized chat experiences built around companionship and intimacy. Companionship and intimacy, two things people desperately want and two things AI cannot deliver. This stuff is deeply dystopian and I struggle to believe good faith on the part of people selling this stuff.
- theragra 4mo ago
  Users think otherwise. I agree it is dystopian, but to me it is the same bucket as sex work. There are people that won't be able to get a sex partner in a "normal" way. The only way for them is sex workers. I assume the same is true here. A lot of people have real trouble to get romantic partner, and AI filla the void. It may look bad from the outside, but I don't think normal people can judge romantically deprived. What would be even more dystopian than AI-partner society is not only to blame incels for each and any issue, but also to disallow them even right to use AI for romantic feelings.
  - dpark 4mo ago
    I’m not blaming incels. I’m blaming the people building companies with the express goal of extracting money from them. There is no moral imperative to allow predatory behavior. We can recognize the difficulty many experience with romantic relationships without blessing others to take advantage of them. I also very much doubt that people struggling with romantic relationships actually show any measure of mental health improvement after engaging with these AI bots. I imagine the pattern is one of addiction, where participants feel better while actively using the product but then worse at baseline because none of their actual problems have improved.
  - bigstrat2003 4mo ago
    Providing an AI "companion" to those who are lonely is kind of like selling drugs to addicts. Yes, it's what they are seeking, and yes, they are suffering. But what you're giving them causes them to suffer more, not less, and it's evil to profit by giving people something that is harming them even if they ask for it.
skylurk 4mo ago
Sounds like UBI to me
da-x 4mo ago
I am looking for signs we are at 'peak AI', is this it?
- mrandish 4mo ago
  If it's not, I'm struggling to come up with what would be.
- v3ss0n 4mo ago
  The models are nearly Climaxed
- v3ss0n 4mo ago
  The Models are nearly Climaxed
- hulitu 4mo ago
  Yes. CSAM [x]. Propaganda [x]. Useless, time consuming "help" [x].
xg15 4mo ago
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ChoGGi 4mo ago
Can I order a Monroebot?

34 points by ajay-d 4mo ago

root-parent 4mo ago

This is another job H1Bs will do for half the price.

bitwize 4mo ago

Just when you thought Juicero was the bottom of the silly valley barrel... a startup called Joi offers JOI by AI

romaniitedomum 4mo ago

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flextheruler 4mo ago

I've started looking at profiles of the non-technical "AI at any cost" people on Reddit and noticed a trend towards AI generated NSFW posts and anime. Unsurprisingly they tend to have zero tolerance towards accepting legitimate criticisms or concerns. After reading about the blackmail a school system in the UK faced because criminals took a public post of 10 year old soccer players and generated sexual child abuse materials with the real girls faces it's in everyones best interests to not post their children's images until or unless we can regulate this behavior. https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/family-and-parenting/2026/05/deepfake-sextortion-forces-schools-to-remove-student-photos-from-websites https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/family-and-parenting/2026/... "By November 2025, IWF reports of AI-generated CSAM had more than doubled year over year, rising from 199 to 426. Girls accounted for 94% of the victims. Reported cases included children ranging from newborns to two-year-olds, according to the organization. The ecosystem around these tools is industrial. In April 2025, a researcher found an exposed AWS S3 bucket belonging to South Korean “nudify” app GenNomis containing 93,485 AI-generated images alongside the prompts that produced them."

0cf8612b2e1e 4mo ago
What more regulation needs to happen? Real or synthetic CSAM is already illegal. Adding another law that is effectively, “Same thing as the previous ones, but this time the generator is a LLM, not Photoshop”.
- thatguy0900 4mo ago
  They want the regulation to be that Ai models cannot produce such images at all, not that producing them is illegal
  - zamalek 4mo ago
    You'd have to have a model that has never seen children, which is perfectly fine, but I can't see any of those with the resources to train such a model form scratch actually doing so.
    - _aavaa_ 4mo ago
      Wouldn’t help. You just ask for a short adult with slightly different proportions.
      - cyanydeez 4mo ago
        Guys, it's always the victims fault. Grift Economy 101. No way to prevent this says Grift Economists for the 928401st time. Better write another check to big business.
        Yiin 4mo ago
        they're not wrong though

dpark 4mo ago

> Joi AI is an online platform that includes AI-generated avatars, voice interactions, and personalized chat experiences built around companionship and intimacy. Companionship and intimacy, two things people desperately want and two things AI cannot deliver. This stuff is deeply dystopian and I struggle to believe good faith on the part of people selling this stuff.

theragra 4mo ago
Users think otherwise. I agree it is dystopian, but to me it is the same bucket as sex work. There are people that won't be able to get a sex partner in a "normal" way. The only way for them is sex workers. I assume the same is true here. A lot of people have real trouble to get romantic partner, and AI filla the void. It may look bad from the outside, but I don't think normal people can judge romantically deprived. What would be even more dystopian than AI-partner society is not only to blame incels for each and any issue, but also to disallow them even right to use AI for romantic feelings.
- dpark 4mo ago
  I’m not blaming incels. I’m blaming the people building companies with the express goal of extracting money from them. There is no moral imperative to allow predatory behavior. We can recognize the difficulty many experience with romantic relationships without blessing others to take advantage of them. I also very much doubt that people struggling with romantic relationships actually show any measure of mental health improvement after engaging with these AI bots. I imagine the pattern is one of addiction, where participants feel better while actively using the product but then worse at baseline because none of their actual problems have improved.
- bigstrat2003 4mo ago
  Providing an AI "companion" to those who are lonely is kind of like selling drugs to addicts. Yes, it's what they are seeking, and yes, they are suffering. But what you're giving them causes them to suffer more, not less, and it's evil to profit by giving people something that is harming them even if they ask for it.

skylurk 4mo ago

Sounds like UBI to me

da-x 4mo ago

I am looking for signs we are at 'peak AI', is this it?

mrandish 4mo ago
If it's not, I'm struggling to come up with what would be.
v3ss0n 4mo ago
The models are nearly Climaxed
v3ss0n 4mo ago
The Models are nearly Climaxed
hulitu 4mo ago
Yes. CSAM [x]. Propaganda [x]. Useless, time consuming "help" [x].

xg15 4mo ago

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ChoGGi 4mo ago

Can I order a Monroebot?