My Girlfriend Is the AI Double of a Pornstar, by Agnès Giard
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Every week in "Les 400 Culs" , Agnès Giard, an anthropologist attached to the University of Paris Nanterre and a specialist in Japan, examines contemporary sexual discourses and practices with a skeptical and detached analysis, informed by the latest research in the human and social sciences.
Imagine if Rocco Siffredi, François Sagat, or Clara Morgane offered subscription-based access to a dialogue AI capable of not only reproducing their voice, but also their personality and the way they laugh or whisper… If this AI played the role of a boyfriend or girlfriend available 24/7, would you give it a try? The idea isn't new, of course. It dates back to 2023. An engineer from Silicon Valley launched a voice clone of an influencer. His name is John Meyer. His ambition is to build a veritable stable of chatbots imitating celebrities for intimate role-playing games. Several stars gave him their approval… Two years later, what has become of this project, which is supposed to "open up new horizons" ? Even as the media are going wild about AI , the anthropology journal <
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