Jonny Worldbeater: I mean, The Stepford Wives immediately springs to mind, and that is over 50 years old, and I'm sure that's far from the first story to be explicitly about supplicating women into mindless, unthinking trophies for weak-willed men.

Years ago I wrote about how the fantasy of so many men in tech re: AI was to create a woman that doesn't talk back. It's not an original idea--it populates sci-fi, like Ex Machina. But it's also an easy point to argue because so many guys will just... say it.

impressive how much these puff pieces for AI still make the people involved sound like sociopaths

I mean, The Stepford Wives immediately springs to mind, and that is over 50 years old, and I'm sure that's far from the first story to be explicitly about supplicating women into mindless, unthinking trophies for weak-willed men.

Let me introduce to an Ancient Greek gentleman named Pygmalion

Tale as old as time, you might say.

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