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Joi AI is hiring 10 “masturbation consultants” to test its AI-guided masturbation feature and report how it affects stress, sleep, mood, and confidence.

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[–] ScruffyDucky@lemmy.world 81 points 1 month ago
[–] furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 1 month ago

Can't participate, AI is a massive turn-off.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They named their startup "Joi".

It has to be a joke.

[–] Zannsolo@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Jack off instruction ai sounds like the perfect name for what they are. Now the validity of the idea is another thing and unless they have some super shady plans like creating a mind controlled army of masturbators to start robbing banks and sending them the money I don't know how this would ever make money.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Maybe sell the data to religious organizations so they know which porn to lobby against?

Just off the top of my head.

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Hey claude, should i jork it?"
"Yes"
"Bitchin'"

[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.today 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Oh Claude I'm gonna cum"

"You're absolutely right!"

[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.today 34 points 1 month ago
[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

... mood-matched AI voice-guided sessions ...

"I'll have the Captain Picard tonight!"

"Look lively there, Ensign! Being first at any cost is not always the point! What we leave behind is not as important as how we’ve lived! If we’re going to be damned, let’s be damned for what we really are! There are four lights! Maximum warp! Live now! Make now always the most precious time! Now will never come again! Lay in a course! Make it so!"

[–] Babalugats@feddit.uk 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can I hire somebody $500 per month to do it for me?

[–] Meruten@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sugar babies are probably more expensive than 500 a month. Although things like this probably depend on a lot of factors.

[–] Babalugats@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago

I'm sure i could find somebody to take 5 minutes out of their day, 7 times a day for around $16 per day.

I think that commissioning JOI scripts to someone who knows about pacing and then commissioning voice actors would be cheaper

[–] beep@piefed.world 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Downvoted because it's an obvious stunt to make people provide free advertising for the company.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Free advertising? Sounds like it costs about $2000/month.

[–] beep@piefed.world 6 points 1 month ago

They don't actually have to hire anyone thou?

[–] unabart@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago

AI SUCKS!!!1!! THE NERVE OF TH... hold up.... what??? ~ok~

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The main sign that AI is really a failure is the lack of AI porn. Where is the porn we were promised?

If making good content was possible with AI, that industry would have done it already.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

you don't look at much porn, do you?

[–] AnitaAmandaHuginskis@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh, it's there, I assure you

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Links please. For research purposes of course

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

its largely sitting in rp thingies and such.

currently, training a video gen model on corn is simply too expensive, and tech companies like openai and alibaba would rather not train on it, as it costs them extra thousands to train a type of video which is restricted to be generated anyway.

data curation has become one of the pillows improving models performance lately.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago

Where is the porn we were promised?

If you're curious, just give a plain web search for "AI porn". You'll get all kinds of hits.

I mean, seriously, have you not heard of any of it?

  • LLMs can write erotica
  • There was all kinds of news about DeepFake nudes
  • AI-based image generation tools can produce porn in realistic or hentai styles
  • There's also AI-based video generation, and all kinds of materials for it to have been trained on.

I'm surprised that you're making this comment, and I'm surprised so many people upvoted it...

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The job only lasts a month. What ever happened to investing in a stable workforce!?

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago

We're reaching dot com boom era levels of absurdity.

[–] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We are proud to announce our AI pleasure cube. following AI JOI practices chosen by you, it offers the best sensory overload in the market. It even comes in two colors for optimal gooning experience, ivory white and slick black. Our data analysts confirm that the serotonin increase is three times better than current ASMR technology*.

Buy now and get one month subscription to VRape, the best virtual reality experience.

* ~This device is more addictive than heroin, its withdrawal can cause mental anguish, ego death and meeting the hat man. Please consult with your primary care provider~

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I want to know more about meeting this hat man, how does that work?

For a friend.

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

Eat a handful of benadry, you'll meet the hat man and his shadow buddies

[–] N0libri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Can't get job because I have been automated

Can't buy computer because it's needed for datacenter

Can't watch movies because they're AI generated

Can't drink water because datacenter needs it

Can't turn on lights cause AI needs more electricity

Can't go outside because generators poisoned the air

Can't cum because goon-gpt hallucinated that I am into denial

[–] webp@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

Masturbating with AI would be hard and not in the way that they hope.

[–] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

See you all losers I'm going to be the first trillionaire

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 5 points 1 month ago

Do they do overtime?