You might remember a few months ago, an AI startup posted a job listing looking for 10 “masturbation consultants,” offering to pay $2,000 a month to test out what it called a “Daily Guided Masturbation feature.” Well, it turns out they did, in fact, find 10 people (in fact, they found 150,000 hopefuls) and logged 134 separate sessions with the help of an AI-generated self-pleasure sherpa.
The company, Joi AI (a play on the porn abbreviation that is short for jerk off instructions), is primarily offering companion chatbots oriented toward sex. But it’s positioned itself as offering masturbation as a self-care routine. “One of the most widely…
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