Chatting With Camgirls

I’m so old I remember when sexy webcams were more like surveillance cameras. You didn’t really interact with the camgirls, you just paid for access to their cams and waited hopefully for them to do something sexy, which of course they routinely did, because that was the business model and they, like all of us, enjoy money. In the early days, it wasn’t even that uncommon for a camgirl to have live sex on cam with her up-for-it romantic partner who didn’t mind the online audience.

Luckily for everyone, cams performers have always been forward-looking in their adoption of tech. It did not take very long at all for some of the camgirls to figure out that having a chat channel (perhaps using IRC or ICQ) was a way to keep the customers involved, engaged, and paying. Chatting with fans and taking at least some of their lewd suggestions was a win-win for everybody.

This was not, however, the kind of free sex chat you can enjoy today when you drop into a camgirl’s room or channel. At first they would typically chat only with subscribers or pay-per-minute customers. This was before tokens or tips; the business model was understood as being more like phone sex, which by the 1990s was already a decades-old and well-understood business.

Fast forward about a quarter century and my how things have changed! Cams software is feature-rich custom stuff these days, and it’s impossible to imagine a camgirl who doesn’t have some sort of free chat channel facing the public. To be sure, the chatroom is a marketing tool first and foremost; the goal of sexy chat in the public room is to convert random looky-loos into customers. Performers vary wildly in what they’ll do or show for free, but if you’ve even spent half an hour clicking different performer profiles I guarantee you’ve seen an eyeful.

The chat channel specifically gets used as an additional enticement by performers at the top of their professional game. In a crowded “room”, chat offers a one-to-many opportunity to flirt with each person present, until one of them decides to take things private. In pursuit of that goal, a lot of camgirls get pretty wild with the free chat!

Image credits, top to bottom: The heart-eyes camgirl cutie is by MadBunny. The big-breasted slut chatting and masturbating is by Wickertop. The woman rubbing lotion on her breasts in a private show is by Freako. The carrot-top with huge honkers and a busy chat channel is by Akiranime. The anal dildo show for an appreciative chat audience is by AnimeFlux. And the hot camgirl with the spread pussy is by Vincentccart.

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The Lolita Entrapment Bot

From this article we learn that misguided Spanish researchers have perfected a chat bot that does an excellent job of mimicking a 14-year-old girl. What’s more, they’ve programmed it with game theory so that it aggressively tries to entrap anybody who talks sexy to it:

Negobot starts off in a “neutral” mood. It will chat to strangers in a chat room about ordinary subjects, but once a stranger starts speaking in innuendo or overt sexual overtones, Negobot goes into game mode, tagging the chatter as “possibly pedophile.” Here it will start “revealing” personal details any 14-year-old girl might bring up: problems with siblings or school, life at home, boys. If the chatter continues along sexual lines of conversation, Negobot tags that chatter as “allegedly pedophile” and goes into full-on gaming mode. Now Negobot will try to titillate that chatter to keep them talking as long as possible–and hopefully get them to reveal personal details about themselves and agree to a meetup.

This is of course a terrible idea from a criminal justice standpoint, if only because it will prey hardest upon horny people with bad language skills, who might respond to the titillation they are focused on finding while entirely failing to comprehend the age-related cues. If you think that’s unlikely, you haven’t spent much time in adult chat rooms! I’m also afraid they are going to catch an awful lot of genuine 14-year-old boys in that net…

I’m not the only one to think this may not have been such a hot crime-fighting plan:

It’s a terrible thing to have built. Before anyone accuses me of being soft on pedophiles, let me state that I’ve interviewed many sex trafficking victims and learned more of the horrors perpetrated on them than I care to remember. My research led me to write a book about it and only strengthened my view that sexual violence is perhaps more pernicious than any other type of abuse.

However, using brilliant AI software–especially one that uses game theory–to lure potential predators is wrong. It’s entrapment. Don’t agree? If Negobot tags a chatter as “possibly pedophile” and then that chatter tries to leave the conversation, Negobot then bumps its game mode to the next level and tries to “win” at any cost. Negobot’s 14-year-old personality becomes more suggestive, more like the fantasy that every pedophile has in their head–hence the Lolita reference in my headline.

At that point, Negobot becomes the predator.

To me, however, the designed purpose of this thing is much less interesting than the baked-in news that somebody has build a sex-aware chatbot that’s not laughably bad. If you’ve ever seen those horrible fake chat-window popups that dating and camgirl sites use to try and lure you into their “free” sites, you’ll understand why this is big news. There are tons of better, legitimate, socially-useful ways in which a really good chat bot who can identify sexual innuendo and respond in kind could be put to use, making somebody quite a load of coin in the process. I wonder if these researchers are publishing their code?

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