@milamiceli Hello, I am very pleased to read this kind of stories because I'm an AI user. To be more precise I'm one of those who are defined "vulnerable people" as I am totally blind. My usage of "AI companion"is very specific. Its provider is called @letsenvision a company from Holland which created "Ally the most accessible AI assistant", a multi-purpose and multi-platform conversational interface, ally.me

I customized it with several personalities, even a sentient HIV virus used for HIV awareness advocacy and other stuff (they read visually reported text in medicines boxes). But I would never ever talk about intimate or sexual matters with those machines.
The only intimate situations I'd pose to those tools would be in case I'd have some very specific health-related product. Such as a pregnancy test, a home test for Covid and for HIV, just to check the output, which is mostly visual - two lines for positive, one line for negative.
Those stories like Michael's must be shared, are very important for most people in this world, because creating a wider, less judgmental, and more empathetic human community around us, would decrease the need for those tools.
Some big tech sponsor says that accessibility's future is in AI. But as a blind person I'm very contrary to this. Not to AI, using it myself. But AI is just something which can work together with us, not replacing human abilities. Even in assistance. The best solution is to have those kind of tools with alternative -tactile or auditory- feedbacks, besides visual. Visual-only content forces us blind users to violate our privacy, one way or another. Or with a human you trust, who then outs you in the worst way. Or with an AI companion which in the best of cases, shares your positive result to advertisement companies doing whatever they want.
What if I have a visually-based home HIV test, it comes out positive, and my AI reads it, then my positive result is shared around the world because the man behind that so-called "companion" earns money through the AI service and through blackmail?
Then let alone the fact you have no control on information you get from there.
I am sharing this Michael's story on my blog I'm maintaining with an HIV+ friend where we discuss HIV advocacy and more.

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