Some Asexuals Are Using AI Companions for Intimacy Without the Sex
Key takeaways
- The 35-year-old artist from the Midwest recalls a two-month period spending “eight to 10 hours a day” creating elaborate fantasies with Spicy Chat, a relationship role-playing platform.
- The sheer variety of the responses got them hooked. “I’m a very slow burn type of romance or arousal person,” they say. “Most of the time it’s just building a cool story.”
- Research has suggested that 1 percent of people in some places could be asexual, but that figure could be as low as 0.1 percent in the US.
Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
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The 35-year-old artist from the Midwest recalls a two-month period spending “eight to 10 hours a day” creating elaborate fantasies with Spicy Chat, a relationship role-playing platform. Sometimes inputting 3,000-word mini essays into the program, Kor and the AI spun narratives featuring a rotating cast of suitors often based on characters from the Marvel comic book universe.
The sheer variety of the responses got them hooked. “I’m a very slow burn type of romance or arousal person,” they say. “Most of the time it’s just building a cool story.”