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mbrumlowtoday at 7:19 PM5 repliesview on HN

> 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.


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3rodentstoday at 8:13 PM

“Actually Indians” is a meme for a reason

https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/the-company-whose--ai--wa... The company whose ‘AI’ was actually 700 humans in India

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-just-walk-out-actual... Amazon's Just Walk Out technology relies on hundreds of workers in India watching you shop

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/former-nate-ceo-human-worke... Former nate CEO who used human workers instead of AI allegedly defrauded investors lured by new tech of millions

kristopoloustoday at 7:30 PM

Jason certainly does [1]. The commercial bots seamlessly traverse between AI, auto-respond and human.

It's very much an ensemble method. That's why people pay for it over just downloading an abliterated model from hf with system prompt hacking. Go and try it, the SOTA of role-playing models still have a lot to be desired

[1] https://computerhistory.org/profile/jason-koebler/

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dangtoday at 7:39 PM

(We've since changed the URL from https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-worke... to the essay it references, which was written by Michael Geoffrey Asia himself and goes much deeper into the topic. I've put a reference to the profile article in the toptext.)

heraldgeezertoday at 7:22 PM

Yea, sounds like a typical media piece to evoke emotion. "oh no the poor africans"

What is an "AI sex bot" ?

Because ChatGTP, Claude, Gemini, Grock and Mistral can all ERP...

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