So-called ‘thirst traps‘ posted by attention-hungry real people on social media have experienced an influx of digital competition lately – artificial intelligence.
Start-ups that market sexually available virtual companions to lonely men have started to spring up on social media.
The ads promise ‘AI girlfriends’ whose underlying ‘machine learning’ architecture learns the user’s preferences.
Sites like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok are worried, given that these new ads have shown an uncanny ability to beat content moderation roadblocks in place to block such overtly sexual content.
Worse, in certain ads, memes incorporating well-known children’s TV characters from Cookie Monster to SpongeBob SquarePants are redeployed in a questionable ‘fair use’ cases to promote the AI sex apps and their ability to generate ‘NSFW pics.’
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