Move over sexbot! There’s a new app to fulfill all of your sex fantasies that your social skills and gumption can’t quite manage! CupidBot!
George Orwell couldn’t even dream this shit up, but here we have one of the grossest situations ever to come issuing forth from some Silicon Valley start-up orifice. Some genius Tinder washouts who have created an app with these dreadful attributes:
- It will “learn” the type of women its customers swipe right on from any dating app they want.
- It will chat up the unsuspecting women for them.
- It will notify the user when the hapless target agrees to either give up her phone number or go on a date.
- The user is “strongly” urged to notify the date that they’ve been chatting with a bot.
- It has been made for straight men. They didn’t say straight white men but given the track record of AI with CoC, well, you do the math.
Screengrab from Cupidbot.ai
At the point of success of success for CupidBot our boy wonders are left to flounder when they call their dream girl or actually meet her. It is the digital equivalent of stuffing your jockeys with toilet paper and hoping that she’ll be too embarrassed to reject you when you reveal your average size.
I won’t say that this app is likely to increase the incidence of date rape, I can see how it would given that its basic premise is, well, actually date rape. It presents these men under false pretenses to these women. It doesn’t identify itself as a chatbot ever. The women using dating apps don’t know that their data is being mined and their facial features and other crucial aspects of their appearance are being quantified and number crunched to match whatever fantasy the fellow is having. When she shows up for their “date,” it’s going to take about one introduction to realize that this guy isn’t the one she’s been chatting with.
Of course, CupidBot isn’t promising sexual conquest or anything, but it is the equivalent of the Nigerian prince emails that promise riches if you’ll just prime the pump with your hard earned cash. If you approach enough women with the line, Wanna fuck? you might could very well find one who does. If you go on enough chatbot secured “dates” one is bound to get you laid, right?
Pity the poor fool of a woman who tries to escape this technologically inspired Orwellian nightmare when she realizes the gross mistake she’s made by agreeing to meet this guy. Given the equally grossly inflated expectations that the fools who fork over $15.00 a month for its use have — Hey! I paid good money for this “date!” I expect a return on my investment! — you can begin to see where zero-degrees of empathy, a swollen sense of entitlement, and bloated expectations will lead.
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Calico Jack reports on a problematic chat bot app
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Given that there’s a good chance that a guy who uses this app is unlikely to understand the difference between consent and compliance, or that agreeing to a date doesn’t necessarily equal consent to sex, and that he may very well have a primal belief (see how I worked that in?) that women exist to serve men, the odds that some rapes and lesser sexual assaults will result are pretty good.
One can hope that some team of code monkeys out there is working on a chat bot detector app.
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Howdy Bob!
The attitudes of the people who made the app are very concerning. Their website says something like white straight men are the big losers in dating apps. However, they don’t explain how they lose; perhaps, because women can reject them? That tells you all you need to know about their sense of entitlement when it comes to sex and dating. Essentially, what they’re saying is that they’ll set you up on a date, but if you fail to have sex with her, that’s on you. It ups the ante, it increases the pressure on the men using their service to have sex on their dates, which means they’re more likely to use force.
Huzzah!
Jack
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If they are not Incel themselves, they are clearly playing to that mind set, and the associated context of White Grievance politics.
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The cynical win-at-all-costs and if it makes a buck it is worth it attitude will probably be the undoing of America. The Me-Generation has given rise to the entitled narcissistic generation. Yet, many of the kids today are much better equipped to deal with it than we were.
Huzzah!
Jack
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American culture, political and commercial, has from it’s beginning been uncomfortable and undecided about the relationship between the individual and the community. Perhaps, the younger generations have enough who have seen the damage of this pendulum swing to the narcissistic individualism and swing back the other way.
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Given that implicit bias is decreasing in the younger generation, concerns about the environment are increasing, awareness of social issues like inequality are increasing, and commitment to addressing them all is increasing, we may have a chance if we can outlive Trump.
Jack
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It is of note on the subject of the environment that the young are knowing that they have a bigger stake and the scientists at the IPCC have given up on trying to not sound “alarmist” (which they probably should have done long ago).
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I can remember when ecologists were accused of being alarmist and handing ammunition to the wait and see crowd and justification for ignoring the warnings. It’s like “Don’t Look Up” and the scientists’ frustration at not being able to convince people that the end is nigh. We still might could keep ourselves a livable planet.
Jack
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Maybe so.
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Yeah, and, this, I’m sure, would put women in a, worse place than ever before, because, who’s to say, that all these, social-skill-lacking, sexed up LOSERS, won’t one day, act out on their, “urges” on a, real live, woman, and, due to how they became, accustomed to these, blown-up, robotic dolls, they may believe, that it would, okay for them to, rape, to molest us women, whenever they pleased. This is, truly, quite, bad. And I’m certain, that an invention like this, will give rise to the, sex crime, rates everywhere, in the, world too
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Howdy Taurus!
A few years ago, I took several psychological findings to construct a theory that every man is a rapist, it just takes the right situation for them to commit the act. Luckily, for most men, the situations in which they will rape are quite small and rarely occur, but in terms of rape prevention, the most successful college program advices women to do exactly that, treat all men as potential rapists and as soon as things get hinky, get assertive, and get out of the situation.
That said, this particular program is likely to raise men’s expectations in their dates and cause women to be more likely to reject them due to the discovery of the deception involved in securing the date. That rejection is likely to set the stage for a decrease in empathy for her and an increase in anger, which for some will be enough to tip the scales towards date rape.
Huzzah!
Jack
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I think, the only way for men to, turn the gender bias/sterotype around, is for them to, experience the exact same state of helplessness that women as victims feel, the blaming it on how it’s because she dresses a certain wat, or due to her line of work that makes her an easy target, and for men to, stay in that particular state of mind, long enough, for them to experience the fear, the shame, the, helplessness, in order for men to know exactly how it feels, then, maybe, men will, gain an understanding of what it’s like, to be, victimized, then, maybe, men won’t, target women.
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Howdy Taurus!
What you’re describing is a way to increase the amount of empathy that men will feel towards women. It’s one reason I’m liking the emphasis on consent that is being taught in North America and I assume Europe, although, I don’t know it for a fact. By shifting the dynamics of the interaction, it empowers women to be sexual partners and acknowledges that they want to have sex… in general, but maybe not with a specific person at a specific time. It shifts sex from being transactional — I bought you a dinner and a movie, now you owe me — to being mutual. It helps men understand the difference between consent and compliance.
I doubt we’ll ever eliminate rape and sexual assault completely, but we can minimize it by altering the situations where sexual assault frequently takes place. One way to do that is to change the perspectives of the people in the situation, i.e. consent and assertiveness.
Huzzah!
Jack
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From the Notebook of Old Husbands’ Tales* ~ there’s no such thing as a Pacifist, only Opportunists awaiting the opportunity to hang out the Jolly Roger.**
It’s what separates us from the monkeys [me] …
*Lazarus Long; **The Templar Battle Flag
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We differ by what we consider opportunities. That’s about the size of it.
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