Citations:pornbot

English citations of pornbot

Noun: "an automated account on a social-media platform that spams users with advertisements for pornographic content or sexual services"

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• 2005, Regina Lynn, The Sexual Revolution 2.0, 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.

• 2006, Cushla Kapitzke, "Internet Chatrooms: E-Space for Youth of the Risk Society", in Handbook of Research on Literacy in Technology at the K-12 Level (eds. Leo Wee Hin Tan & Ramanathan Subramaniam), 170:

  From the number of advertisements received in AOL chatrooms, it was apparent that some users had set up pornbots, which are electronic scripts or programs designed to send advertisements to other users.

• 2009, David Mathison, Be the Media: How to Create and Accelerate Your Message...Your Way, 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, 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.”

• 2014, Gary Brannan, "Talking in the Night: Exploring Webchats to Serve New Audiences", in Reference and Access: Innovative Practices for Archives and Special Collections (ed. Kate Theimer), page 77:

  Spam users, pornbots, potential libel issues, and flame wars are all very real risks when you invite the entire Internet to your door.

• 2014, Tom Phillips, Tinder Fails: The Most WTF? Moments from the World's Favourite Dating App, unnumbered page:

  You can often find yourself talking to trolls, to people who wildly overshare, to pornbots, or to someone from the skeevy 'pick-up artist' community, trying out tips on how to manipulate people into sex.

• 2018, Trevor Henderson, quoted in Rachel Krishna, "Tumblr Porn Bots Started Commenting On Horror Art Posts And The Results Are Actually Hilarious", BuzzFeed News, 19 November 2018:

  Pornbots on tumblr have started using my art and it is the FUNNIEST thing.

• 2020, Mina Hardy, After All I've Done, unnumbered page:

  It's a spam message, one of those pornbots. Right? It has to be.

• 2021, Katrin Tiidenberg, Natalie Ann Hendry, & Crystal Abidin, Tumblr, unnumbered page:

  Pornbots are socialbots that operate with pornographic content to grab attention.

• 2022, Maddy Mussen, "Instagram’s pornbot problem was driving me mad – so I became one", Joe, 16 June 2022:

  In every popular Instagram account’s comment section you can find a pornbot armed with 100 or so likes from other bot accounts that boost them to the top of the feed, and a handful of suggestive emojis to boot – tongues, water droplets and cherries are among their favourites.

• 2023, Nurie Salim, "A pornbot stole my identity on Instagram. It took an agonising month to get it deleted", The Guardian, 28 February 2023:

  Pornbots create fake accounts that are designed to mimic real people.

Noun: "a robot or artificial intelligence designed to have (simulated) sex with humans"

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• 2011, Dave Monroe, Porn - Philosophy for Everyone How to Think With Kink, 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, 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.

• 2021, Stephen R. Haynes, Why Can't Church Be More Like an AA Meeting?: And Other Questions Christians Ask about Recovery, unnumbered page:

  The porn-delivery revolution now underway involves virtual reality (VR), which is expected to become a billion-dollar-a-year business by 2025, while other near-future innovations include pornbots and haptic technology (which adds a sense of touch).

• 2022, Corina Medley, "Robot Sex", in Shades of Deviance: A Primer on Crime, Deviance and Social Harm (eds. Rowland Atkinson & Tammy Ayres), unnumbered page:

  On the one hand, there are groups such as the Campaign Against Sex Robots that claim that sexbots—which they call pornbots—hurt relationships and contribute to the dehumanization and domination of women and girls.

• 2023, Sven Nyholm, This Is Technology Ethics: An Introduction, 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.”