Looks on internet:
"We're putting sex dolls with AI into classrooms to teach children."
Looks outside:
*Can barely see through the wildfire smoke
what do I do now
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2026
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I...Humbly fail to understand how the BRAIN DEAD CEO of that company doesn't see the wild pivot this is. If they manage to succeed and get access to children, this will be a petri dish of absolute hell. Looking at those dolls, their dead, souless eyes...I can't see this ending well in the slightest. It will harm young minds, as humans need real people to educate them. Not these robotic corpses.
I have to assume this is just a clever attempt to advertise their product to people outside what their algorithm hits.
Gotta be a whole market of rich old guys who don't go on the internet and never expected to be alive during the robot sex era.
It's really fucking weird, it doesn't feel clever to me personally. They might really want to get into a secondary business as there is big money in data collection and they'd be able to tap a market which has been historically off the table: Children.
You are right though, there are probably a lot of rich old guys that are desperate for any kind of outlet for their sexual frustration, because real women (or men) can immediately read their vibe and bid them good-bye! The robot sex era is a crazy, but potentially inevitable thing because lonely dudes with zero game are a lucrative market to exploit.
I don't think clever and weird are mutually exclusive here unfortunately.
It is a fact that neither of us would be talking about sex robots right now otherwise. Unfortunately clever or not, its working?
Maybe, its working...Doesn't mean it isn't cursed as fuck though. I'd really hate for a company with an "AI" pivot to actually succeed as that would be nasty. At the end of the day, people crave novelty of all kinds, even the bad weird kind. So they are leveraging that and this tactic might work. I don't have to like it though.
Never said you had to like it anymore than I never said it was a good thing.
My point was they're bluffing. They dont' expect to be allowed in schools. This is pure "all publicity is good publicity."
Word on the street is that women teaching are getting harassed by male students on levels previously only witnessed on xbox live.
I feel like this is just going to reenforce that kind of behaviour.
Ouff, the power dynamics, the psychological fireworks that will evolve in those classrooms... I wish I could just lean back and enjoy the show, but this is for real... Right? 💀 Ugh... I'll just go to bed.
"First lesson: Geography with Mr Longdong. Second lesson: Physical education with Mrs D. D. Hooters. Third lesson:..."