The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy (2025) [pdf]

beepbooptheory 62 points 18 comments March 12, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (4 comments)

mbrumlow

> he started his second job as the human labor behind AI sex bots This makes no sense. AI sex bots don’t need humans texting and role playing. I don’t think whoever wrote this article understands what AI is. Note the fist job of describing what was in the video seems like somebody building a AI dataset.

renewiltord

Phone sex line guy upset he had to do phone sex. What.

klueinc

Appaled at the lack of empathy for labellers from other comments here.

d0able

Would have liked to see a clearer call for action other than "regulation" - what exactly would the author want to regulate and what are the downstream effects?

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