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AI not only is putting jobs at risk, He is also inventing others as unusual as they are disturbing. While some positions are shaky and others gain valuea company that sells virtual companions has taken an even stranger step: It has posted an offer to hire a “masturbation consultant.” It’s no joke, and it’s pretty well paid. The offer. Joi AI is a company that sells AI companions, similar to Replika either Character.aiand is working on a new adult audio feature. In order to evaluate your new product, They were looking for ten masturbation consultants They could test the feature for four weeks and conduct daily audio-guided sessions and then submit short weekly reports on their experience. The only requirement was to be over 18 years old and the salary was $2,000. What happened next will surprise no one. massive response We speak in the past tense because the offer has already been withdrawn. The flood of requests caused the link to the offer to break and, in just a few days, the company received no less than 100,000 applications for just ten positions, that is, 10,000 candidates per position. In statements to Business InsiderJulie Levin, Head of Communications at Joi AI, said “What are we supposed to do with 100,000 applications? I should probably call them winners, because it’s a very close competition.” The majority of candidates were young men between 20 and 30 years old. The business of artificial intimacy. Joi AI is one of many applications that are monetizing something that has been happening for a long time: that Humans are establishing relationships with AIs. The company already has 70 employees, has raised about $4 million in financing and boasts more than one million monthly active users worldwide. There are even more popular apps like the aforementioned Replika, which has two million active users. Joi AI falls into a subcategory of apps more oriented towards sexual content, which also includes the case of OhChat, a kind of virtual OnlyFans where Retired porn actresses continue working in the form of virtual avatars. As for price, all of these apps offer different subscription levels. It is striking that Joi AI offers a hybrid model between subscription and payment for tokens: for $13.99 per month they give you 1,000 coins and, if they run out, you can buy more. Aggressive marketing. Joi AI assured that the offer was real, but the suspicion that it may be all part of a marketing campaign is there. After the offer was published, the company was sharing some responses from the candidates to the question “What do you hope to learn about yourself?”, in a clear attempt to gain virality. Be that as it may, what is clear is that the company has a very aggressive marketing strategy; They sell themselves as an ‘ai-lationships’ platform and on their website they declare themselves enemies of dating apps. “We oppose that stressful and frustrating dating app experience that leaves people feeling hurt, insecure and alone (…) Joi AI is the antidote to everything dating apps have forgotten: authentic connection, real freedom and zero nonsense.” And they stay so wide. The dark side of artificial relationships. As these types of ‘AI companion’ services become popular, the risks they pose to our mental health are being questioned. we live an epidemic of loneliness, but it is increasingly clear to us that using AI to replace human relationships poses more problems than benefits. Far from curing isolation, studies have seen that regular use causes just the opposite effect, making us feel lonelier and more depressed. In this sense, Joi AI being sold as “authentic connection” and a cure for loneliness seems anything but honest. Image | Xataka with Magnific In Xataka | People Blaming ChatGPT for Causing Delusions and Suicides: What’s Really Happening with AI and Mental Health