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

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

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?

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

> 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.