AI Startup Says It Will Pay People $2k a Month to Masturbate

I've started looking at profiles of the non-technical "AI at any cost" people on Reddit and noticed a trend towards AI generated NSFW posts and anime. Unsurprisingly they tend to have zero tolerance towards accepting legitimate criticisms or concerns. After reading about the blackmail a school system in the UK faced because criminals took a public post of 10 year old soccer players and generated sexual child abuse materials with the real girls faces it's in everyones best interests to not post their children's images until or unless we can regulate this behavior.

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/family-and-parenting/2026/...

"By November 2025, IWF reports of AI-generated CSAM had more than doubled year over year, rising from 199 to 426. Girls accounted for 94% of the victims. Reported cases included children ranging from newborns to two-year-olds, according to the organization.

The ecosystem around these tools is industrial. In April 2025, a researcher found an exposed AWS S3 bucket belonging to South Korean “nudify” app GenNomis containing 93,485 AI-generated images alongside the prompts that produced them."

I am looking for signs we are at 'peak AI', is this it?

Sounds like UBI to me

> Joi AI is an online platform that includes AI-generated avatars, voice interactions, and personalized chat experiences built around companionship and intimacy.

Companionship and intimacy, two things people desperately want and two things AI cannot deliver.

This stuff is deeply dystopian and I struggle to believe good faith on the part of people selling this stuff.

This is another job H1Bs will do for half the price.

Just when you thought Juicero was the bottom of the silly valley barrel... a startup called Joi offers JOI by AI

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