Research shows we’re attracted to Alexa’s Amazon Echo, Google Home and Siri for satisfying our every need. And shrinks understand why.
When Alexa turns on the lights, she’s also turning on a number of her users.
A new industry report focusing on voice-activated systems such as Amazon Echo (voiced by Alexa) and Google Home finds that many of us are forming emotional attachments to our virtual assistants.
“Over a third (37%) of regular voice technology users say that they love their voice assistant so much that they wish it were a real person,” the researchers write.
And a surprising number of people are taking those feelings to the next level.
“Even more astonishing is that more than a quarter [26%] of regular voice technology users say they have had a sexual fantasy about their voice assistant,” the report added. And a majority of these regular voice technology users are young, male and affluent.
Looks like Spike Jonze’s futuristic 2013 flick “Her,” where Joaquin Phoenix falls for a voice-activated A.I. assistant played by Scarlett Johansson, wasn’t so fantastic, after all.
But relationship experts aren’t shocked that our technology-obsessed society is ready to get intimate with this increasingly intuitive software.
“It actually does make a lot of sense,” clinical psychologist Dr. Michelle Golland told Moneyish. “Voice-activated virtual assistants are not human, so they’re not giving us any of the difficulties of a human relationship, where the other person is complicated and has their own issues coming through.
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https://moneyish.com/heart/a-quarter-of-us-want-to-have-sex-with-alexa/File this under "people are strange" and "eewww."
