AI girlfriends are everywhere. So why are the humans they're replacing being pushed off the internet?

This is a chapter from Internet Hate Machine host Bridget Todd’s new Simon & Schuster audiobook, Love at First Prompt: AI and the Future of Intimacy. 

In this conversation, Bridget sit down with 404 Media cofounder Samantha Cole to unpack the booming business of AI companions, sex bots, and erotic role play. They explore why tech companies are racing to build AI girlfriends while human sex workers continue to face censorship, deplatforming, and financial discrimination. 

It's a conversation about labor, consent, power, and what happens when Big Tech decides to monetize our most intimate relationships.

If you enjoy this episode, you can find Love at First Prompt wherever audiobooks are sold, or learn more at LoveAtFirstPrompt.AI. 

AI girlfriends are everywhere. So why are the humans they're replacing being pushed off the internet?
This is a chapter from Internet Hate Machine host Bridget Todd&rsquo;s new Simon &amp; Schuster audiobook, Love at First Prompt: AI and the Future of Intimacy.&nbsp;
In this conversation, Bridget sit down with 404 Media cofounder Samantha Cole to unpack the booming business of AI companions, sex bots, and erotic role play. They explore why tech companies are racing to build AI girlfriends while human sex workers continue to face censorship, deplatforming, and financial discrimination.&nbsp;
It's a conversation about labor, consent, power, and what happens when Big Tech decides to monetize our most intimate relationships.
If you enjoy this episode, you can find Love at First Prompt wherever audiobooks are sold, or learn more at <a href="http://loveatfirstprompt.ai">LoveAtFirstPrompt.AI</a>.&nbsp;

Bridget Todd explains how bad actors use the internet to target and silence marginalized people, especially Black women. Excluding them from discourse and desensitizing us to sexist, racist attacks makes us all less safe. Bridget talks with people who have been the targets of coordinated attacks, activists who are fighting back, and experts to help break down the deliberate agenda behind it.

Bridget Todd explains how bad actors use the internet to target and silence marginalized people, especially Black women. Excluding them from discourse and desensitizing us to sexist, racist attacks makes us all less safe. Bridget talks with people who have been the targets of coordinated attacks, activists who are fighting back, and experts to help break down the deliberate agenda behind it.

Internet Hate Machine

AI Girlfriends Aren't About Love. They're About Profit.

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