pornbot
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- (Internet) An automated account on a social-media platform that spams users with advertisements for pornographic content or sexual services.
- 2005, Regina Lynn, The Sexual Revolution 2.0[1], page 125:
- As I learned, they [furries] are protective about their communities, as well they should be. Otherwise these worlds would be overrun with trolls and pornbots and idiots whose sole purpose is to cause trouble.
- 2009, David Mathison, Be the Media: How to Create and Accelerate Your Message...Your Way[2], page 104:
- Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, which is the new owner of MySpace, could go bankrupt (wishful thinking), or, more likely, could allow the site to be overrun with ads, spam, or pornbots posing as humans.
- 2013, Shelly Palmer, Digital Wisdom: Thought Leadership for a Connected World[3], page 32:
- I probably identify 50 new followers as pornbots every week. Twitter gives you two options for dealing with this kind of annoyance. You can “Block @name” or “Report @name for spam.”
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pornbot.
- (slang, sometimes derogatory) A robot or artificial intelligence designed to have (simulated) sex with humans.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sexbot
- 2011, Dave Monroe, Porn - Philosophy for Everyone How to Think With Kink[4], page 207:
- “Pornbots” are the sexual Barbies of the future – virtual reality prostitutes run by artificial intelligence (not that they will need much intelligence).
- 2016, John C. Havens, Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines[5], page 4:
- Of course pornbots had been going strong for years and I'd been on a few business trips where progressive hotels had begun listing robotic “services” as part of their adult offerings.
- 2023, Sven Nyholm, This Is Technology Ethics: An Introduction[6], page 26:
- On the campaign's website, the campaigners declare that their number 1 goal is to “abolish pornbots in the form of women and girls.”
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pornbot.