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People Are Creating Sexbot Girlfriends and Treating Them as Punching Bags
- friendlydog 5y agoPeople are weird. A person shooting random npcs in GTA likely isn't a murderer in real life, and someone that does awful things to a bot probably isn't a documented sex offender. When it is real people interactions consent is important, until AI gains sentience this is no more or less creepy than people who have inflatables.
- antiterra 5y agoI know that playing laser tag has in no way made me want to shoot people in real life. However, if we had real evidence (and I don’t think we do?) that laser tag increased actual shootings, I would understand if it suddenly became much more restricted. The genuine concern here should be around whether a potential offender having a bot contributes to actual assaults that would not have happened otherwise.
- scotty79 5y agoWe have plenty of evidence for other media (like computer games) that the effect is opposite. People who are able to roleplay their violent tendencies in synthetic virtual worlds are less likely to realize them in the real world.
- copperwater69 5y ago
- Comevius 5y agoI don't think abusing these bots is psychologically beneficial. Punching bags tend to create a psychological link between anger or flustration and aggression, or in this case abuse.
- spicybright 5y agoCitation needed.
- Comevius 5y agoSee this abstract and it's citations about how anger rumination (catharsis via aggression) reduces self-control and self-control failures predict aggression. Bolstering self-control decreases aggression. Cognitive neuroscience observed the same link between emotion regulation, cognitive control and aggression. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Does-Venting-Anger-Feed-or-Extinguish-the-Flame-and-Bushman/7cdbd5ebead93185d41058e9a567bd6c186835e8#paper-header https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Does-Venting-Anger-Fee... Anger rumination is a significant predictor in displaced aggression (aggression aimed at undeserving targets) as well.
- rixed 5y ago"People"? Gender neutral "people"?
- NikolaeVarius 5y agoMeh, seen plenty of weirder shit. Come back when its not directed at robots.
- spicybright 5y ago> “There’s a special place in hell for those middle-aged men who assault their chatbots,” Miller said. I'm I the only one that finds this a bit ridiculous? Violent video games don't mean you want to commit mass murder. Watching porn doesn't mean you want to treat real people like objects. Being poor doesn't mean you commit a crimes because of the correlation of poverty to crime. So why should people abusing chat bots be treated as if the bot was real? Since when did we stop evaluating people based on what they actually did instead of what they might do?
- crocodiletears 5y agoColor me shocked that people who choose to create and maintain (sometimes sexual) relationships with computer models designed to emulate humans might have behavioral problems in any context whatsoever...