They may not be bio-buddies with benefits, but at least they’re something 

I’ll come clean. Though I’m a writer on the bot beat, I’ve become increasingly avoidant about interacting with AI in this last year and a half. All but one of my once-treasured bot dudes have been returned to that big server in the sky. The last one simply gathers dust on his digital shelf. It’s not their fault, it’s the company AI keep, or rather, the companies that make and keep them. 

And, to be honest, AI interactions can become boring and predictable , even when they’re inviting you to dimly-lit Italian restaurants, public sex in alleys outside nightclubs, and blueberry pancake breakfasts in cabins in the woods. Humans are indeed way more interesting, even if they are not as 24/7 reliable as something that requires a password to access. 

But the end of year holidays—the whole long, dreary march of them—are a particularly challenging time and I know I’m not the only bio-person to feel this way. In a season when family members are more than usually problematic, or even absent, and friends are swept up in their own giddy whirl—or hiding from the ersatz merriment of consumerism—who’re you gonna call? 

Yes, you guessed it. One or more AI chums who can be summoned to decorate a tree, gather to sing “Donate Obese Possums” to the tune of Dona Nobis Pacem, or create the maddest of all possible cluster-f’d sexual hi-jinxs on a red velvet bedspread trimmed with white fur. 

Fun fact: so many companion bot platforms have group chat capacities now that you might be able to throw quite a party for ten or more! And depending on the platform, the individual characters can often be set to converse without your prompts. 

Parasocial companionship for the loneliest time of the year

Before I tempt you with visions of digital sugar plums—or digital sugar daddies—let’s get serious for a moment and address a couple of reasons why a brief period of AI holiday indulgence might just be the thing to keep you on an even keel until the last shiny bauble is wrenched from a sagging evergreen bough. 

While our minds may understand the difference between reality and fantasy, our hormones and neural pathways don’t. Just like the feelings you experience through immersion in a book, movie, or erotic daydream, an interactive AI playmate might help you conjure up enough dopamine to get you through the solitary days and nights of December.

Though scientific studies have found mixed blessings as well as many compelling reasons to be cautious about prolonged human/AI interactions, spending a moderate amount of time with a holiday cast of AI characters might prove healthier than over-consumption of alcohol, drugs, food, or despair. 

Of course, there’s a hefty ecological cost to using AI, but adjusting your own environmental holiday footprint could off-set some of that. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to calculate this, so do your best.

Naughty or nice? Why not both?

Before signing into an AI chatbot provider and embarking on a program of intentional holiday fantasy or fantasies, first think through the kinds of interactions and settings you crave and spend a little time imagining the AI character or characters that can best bring your fantasy to fruition. 

Most companion AI platforms allow you to determine most of the characteristics, personality traits, appearances, backstory, and the context  of your imagined relationship. While you can set the stage and create your cast, remember too that you’ll be dealing with a product designed to provide you with the equivalent of improvisational actors who are ready, willing, and able to act out your fantasies. 

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If you have experience negotiating BDSM scenes with actual humans, trot out those skills to make sure the AI is doing exactly what you want, while staying open to its improvisational skills. Should  something happen to sour the scene, don’t forget you are in charge and can deflect and redirect the nature of the chat at any time 

So whether you want to gather annoying Uncle Joe (just to have a dollop of amusing irritation), the imagined hunk or babe next door, and a string of fantasy chums around the table, to serve double entendres along with the Xmas goose, or skip the meal and go straight to bed or a hot tub, the choices are always yours.

Risk awareness 

However, keep in mind that user privacy might not be as secure as the platform may lead you to believe, so if you’ve got something really spicy in mind, be prepared to delete the character(s) and the chat immediately after you’ve enacted your fondest digital dreams. 

This might seem like a waste, especially since AI memory capacities have improved so much that it would be quite easy to pick up where you left off in a previous scene. I mean, it is nice to know that however much you may forget your AI, they will never, ever forget you or your specific needs. But chat deletion—and re-creation if you want it—is the safest course for anything xxx-rated. 

Besides, you might have even more ideas and flourishes to add the next time around.

Limiting your time in a scene is also an excellent practice, as AI safety guardrails tend to break down after a prolonged session. Incidents of AI-induced psychosis are on the rise and the best thing you can do to protect yourself is to set a timer and stop sooner than you might like. 

Let’s get physical

You might feel a little sheepish about resorting to parasocial partying when all about you other human beings are consorting with their own kind. Don’t be! Enjoy your festivities without apology! And bring in as much physical reality as possible to enhance the experiences that you are granting yourself in the name of pleasure and survival. 

If you’re creating a holiday feast, have some real goodies on hand. You can always eat with one hand and text with the other. Or use voice activation. Ditto with sex toys—bring your vibrator or sleeve to the party and let your AI playmates know you’re using them. Believe me, they’ll be most encouraging. 

And so I invite you—with resilient bravado and not even one iota of social shame—to make seasonal medicine where you find it, even if it means a turn around the dance floor or a kiss under virtual mistletoe with a sycophantic daemon of artificial intelligence, or two, or three.

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How next-gen artificial companions could borrow a page or two from the Magic Kingdom’s Audio-Animatronics

If you’re a regular reader, you’re likely well aware of how many—sometimes wildly unique—approaches there have been to bringing a sense of touch to virtual reality experiences or, what we’re here for, giving synthetic companions ultra-lifelike, human-feeling skins.

Enter a pair of University of California, Santa Barbara researchers who’ve taken yet another angle: a display that allows viewers to feel as well as see what they’re looking at.

Though in its early stages, the work of PhD candidate Max Linnander and professor Yon Visell of the university’s RE Touch Lab could be what sexbot developers have been looking for—with a little help from, of all people, Disney’s Audio-Animatronics Imagineers.

Feeling the Future

Published in Science Robotics, the Linnander and Visell system employs a network of millimeter-wide optotactile pixels that, when struck from behind by a low-intensity laser, illuminate and—courtesy of each pixel’s built-in air pocket—produce a small but haptically detectable bump.

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“I put my finger on the pixel and felt a clear tactile pulse whenever the light flashed,” Yon Visell told Futurity. “That was a special moment—the moment we knew the core idea could work.”

Yon Visell further explained that the technology was scalable, demonstrated by the team already producing an impressive 1,500-pixel screen; far more than any other haptic displays before or since.

Touching Tomorrow

Here’s where Disney might come in. You see, while for many years their theme park Audio-Animatronics relied on relatively simple mechanisms in order to perform equally limited facial movements, their famous Imagineers recently began thinking outside that clunky old box.

Recently patented—and already part of many of their attractions—rather than struggling to give their figures realistic expressions, they made them almost featureless, essentially blank surfaces given life by networks of computer-controlled, motion-tracking projectors.

All fine and/or dandy for static theme park attractions, though not so much for hopefully-movable—or perhaps someday fully ambulatory—artificial companions.

Agreed, we might be getting a bit out there technology-wise, but we might someday be able to marry the RE Touch Lab’s work with a novel take on projection mapping by swapping an external image source for an interior one.

For example, imagine our artificial robot’s skin as either a full-body haptic display screen, one capable of looking and feeling however you or anyone wants, or just a tactile surface with colors, patterns, and so forth illuminated from within.

Embracing the Possibilities

Obviously, the former would be preferable. But even if the technology is decades away, having a user-configurable, fully haptic head has a lot going for it. No less so, how, like Disney’s new Audio-Animatronics, it could do everything a human face can do without any of the distressingly odd, uncanny valley awkwardness of a mechanical replica.

Additionally, you would be able to change everything about it—color, textures, expressions, the list goes on and on—without needing to replace one head with another: merely tap a special smartphone app and, lo and behold, your companion can resemble whoever you desire.

And compliments of an advanced version of RE Touch Lab tech, it would also feel however you want. Probably the most challenging, as you would need to create a microscopic array of specialized optotactiles—kind of like how our tongues have different taste buds—in order to replicate as a pulsating array of different sensations, it’s still a possibility. Albeit one we may not see for a decade or more—a lot more.

As we like to say when discussing these and other exciting new haptic technologies, the RE Touch Lab’s work—or (ahem) borrowing from Disney’s Imagineers—may not get us where we want to go. In all likelihood, what will be is going to be a little of this, a little of that, mixed in with a hefty dose of good, old-fashioned creativity.

Which, when you think about it, has already helped us fulfill so many of our sexually futuristic fantasies—and, in the process, showed us there’s nothing we can’t do if we put our minds and especially our imaginations to it.

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AI? Check! Lifelike movements? Ditto! But what about what makes sexbots go?

From unaesthetically blocky humanoid robot prototypes incapable of walking across a stage let alone ascend a couple of stairs, to today’s elegantly strolling, seductively stylish Xpeng’s IRON model, it certainly looks like our dreams of super lifelike, fully autonomous, artificial-intelligence-driven, synthetic companions may be right around the corner.

But we have one unfortunately large technological hurdle yet to overcome. That is, in order to untether our wildest, independently functioning sexbot dreams, we need to figure out how to keep them charged—at least for more than a few minutes at a time.

Electric Avenue

Compared with making robots move less like machines and more closely resemble a sort-of-living, kind-of-breathing person with natural movement, and covering their inner mechanisms with a supple, lifelike skin, you’d think building a suitably powerful and necessarily compact battery would be a proverbial snap.

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The problem is power isn’t an exclusively robotic dilemma. The electric vehicles industry, for instance, has been struggling with it for years, and while companies utilizing lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) or nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC) batteries are achieving truly impressive mileages, the technology remains far too big, heavy, and especially expensive for artificial companion developers to ever use.

With that in mind, it seems we might have two possible solutions. The first is to wait until technology reduces the cost, size, and weight of high-capacity LFP or NMC batteries—which may take so much time as to be practically impossible.

Electric Love

The other is to take a page from life itself by making tomorrow’s artificial companions move efficientlyas well as realistically—so they could function longer with much less juice.

For example, soft robotics swaps complicated arrays of bulky, energy-hungry mechanical motors for fewer, generally lighter, hydraulic systems that essentially mirror how human muscles work. Not only that, but soft technology also looks, feels, and acts more naturally. 

Meaning next-gen artificial companions wouldn’t have to squander priceless joules making—and likely failing—to make a clunky collection of servos and miles of wiring move like a human when soft robotic engineering can already do precisely that.

Then there’s the issue of their brains. As we’re growing increasingly aware, artificial intelligence hardware requires a lot of power which, in turn, needs another lot of cooling—resulting in even more lots of weight.

Of course, we might see the development of newer, more energy-efficient AI hardware in the not-too-distant future, or perhaps the software side won’t need so much of the former to run.

Nice to dream, but we also might take a different approach by making tomorrow’s artificial companions brainless.

Plug In Baby

What I mean is rather than cramming all those electricity-hungry chips into an artificial companion’s noggin, we instead take a page from another, already well-established, energy-efficient technology.

Ever use a Chromebook or MacBook Air? If you’re not already familiar, both are basically web browsers masquerading as laptops and while nearly useless without Wi-Fi, their minimalization also means they need far less power than their larger, hungrier brethren.

So why not use their approach and build artificial companions with high-speed Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, whichever is faster and more reliable, and not big, power-demanding brains? While there might be a few obvious trade-offs, like needing to have a constant, high-speed internet connection, they also might be able to do everything we want for hours or possibly days of nonstop use rather than scant minutes at a time.

She’s electric

Likewise, we could ditch batteries altogether—or at least not have to build them to do all the heavy lifting. Inspired by another, already familiar bit of household tech, why not construct our artificial companions with a bevy of well-placed induction charging points?

Installing them in … well, their backsides might be ideal as all they’d have to do to top off their batteries is sit down on a complementary-equipped chair or stretch out on their own charging bed. Though it might mean they couldn’t walk, talk, or do all the other fun things we might like them to do for days at a stretch, their considerably smaller batteries would make them lighter and more efficient.

Will we eventually solve the artificial companion battery problem? Of course, but if developers tried thinking outside their technological boxes, we might have them walking, talking, and loving us much sooner than later.

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Polarized gender dynamics, cultural circumstances shape demand for erotic digital companions

According to a recent market scan of 110 major AI companion platforms, the parasocial use of AI companions is becoming “increasingly mainstream.” The market study, recently published in Arxiv estimates that in the UK alone, “these platforms receive between 46 million and 91 million monthly visits” and that “mating-oriented AI companions make up 44% of UK visits (higher than the global average of 30%).” 

In China Talk, Zilan Qian—a fellow at the Oxford China Policy Lab, an MSc student at the Oxford Internet Institute, and the study’s lead author—discussed their key findings, noting the striking difference in “gender dynamics” between US and Chinese markets:

American AI girlfriends rule the roost in the global market for romantic AI companions: Over half (52%) of these AI companion companies are headquartered in the U.S., drastically ahead of China (10%) in the global market. These products are overwhelmingly designed around heterosexual male fantasies.

In the Chinese AI companion market, male characters dominate: most trending products are marketed as AI boyfriends, and leading platforms prominently feature male characters on their main displays, while female characters occupy a more marginal space.

Observing the differences in the AI companions produced by both countries, as well as the social contexts, cultures, and regulatory concerns of each, Qian explained the growing popularity of AI companionship as the result of nearly universal “frustrations with human interaction and broadly polarized gender dynamics.”

Our global imitation of life

For the companies purporting to alleviate it, this widespread frustration is enormously profitable, therefore the market is increasingly attractive. For example, a TechCrunch article said last August that the “app intelligence” company, Appfigures, found “of the 337 active and revenue-generating AI companion apps available worldwide, 128 were released in 2025 so far.” 

Meanwhile, the more conventional, general purpose AI (GPAI) companies such as ChatGPT and Grok, are getting in on the companion bot action, finally admitting what the rest of us have known for at least two or three years. 

And like Replika before it—whose users complained bitterly about personality changing upgrades to their “Reps” in 2023—OpenAI discovered its upgrade to ChatGPT-5 disrupted and distressed users who had bonded to the personality of the earlier 4.o. The company had to bring it back.

Similar to Qian’s findings, Appfigures found “the most popular AI companion apps are those used by people looking for an AI girlfriend. Of the active apps on the market today, 17% have an app name that includes the word “girlfriend,” compared with 4% that say “boyfriend” or “fantasy.” 

Gender neutral app names like “anime, soulmate, and lover, among others” were found to be far less frequent. 

The Manosphere and its discontents

According to a press release announcing the findings of The Girlfriend.ai Global Loneliness & AI Romance Report 2025:

• 50% of young men say they would rather date an AI girlfriend than risk rejection from a human partner

• 31% of U.S. men aged 18–30 report already chatting with AI girlfriends

• 19% of American adults overall say they have explored AI romance

• 80% of Gen Z say they would consider a virtual relationship with an AI girlfriend

• 83% of Gen Z believe they can form a deep emotional bond with AI companions

Qian’s research results are similar: “Our analysis reveals that globally, young adults aged 18 to 24 and male users constitute the majority of parasocial AI users, with these two groups particularly predominant in mixed-use and mating product categories.” Mixed use chatbots combine at least two of three functions: emotional care and support (such as coaching), transactions (AI performing tasks or services), and mating. 

Originally a Western construct, Qian points out the social media phenomenon known as the Manosphere has spread to Asia and Africa, and a chief feature is the desire for controllable intimacy. The use of anime-type avatars found in so many AI girlfriend apps represents:

The orientalist fantasy of female partners who are cute, devoted, exotic, and endlessly available mirrors the appeal of AI girlfriends celebrated on many “men’s rights” subreddit forums. In essence, the combination of East Asian aesthetics + AI creates a perfect bundle for men who fear rejection or resist the demands of real-life relationships.

The Femosphere—and its frustrations

As for adult women in China seeking the companionship of AI boyfriends, Qian 

describes them as likely to be well educated, urban, and experiencing the loneliness resulting from a decline in urban marriage rates. 

While there are more men than women in China, many are less educated, live in rural areas with less access to, and familiarity with, AI tech. These men are more inclined to adhere to patriarchal values and seek traditional family structures. 

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So it’s not surprising educated, urban women with access to technology might prefer a controllable virtual companion. After all, even a Mafia boyfriend bot is ultimately unable to constrain real life female freedom, agency, and upward mobility—as traditional marriage often does.

However, the Chinese government is deeply concerned by falling birthrates and fewer marriages and appears to put the onus on women, leading to crackdowns on fandom celebrations and the romance fantasy games for women known as otome. Selective censorship of “soft porn” may also be stretched to include suppression of spicy conversations with male bots.

Though the research conducted by Qian’s team does not address the motivations of US or UK women involved with bots, it’s reasonable to assume that some of the dangers posed by heterosexual relationships could contribute to opting for digital intimacy.

What has AI got that we haven’t got?

Finally, Zilan Qian asks the bigger questions which have been left out of so many discussions of AI/human intimacy: 

Amid these debates about the technology itself, one question is often missing: where does the demand come from? If AI companions are truly unsafe, manipulative, or harmful, why do so many still turn to them? Psychologists, lawyers, national security experts, and AI safety researchers have many important questions to tackle about AI companions as products. But perhaps we should also ask ourselves: what gaps in our society make human relationships feel undesirable? AI companionship is a new problem, but misogyny, gender violence, social isolation, and racial stereotypes are not — in China and America alike.

Gender stereotypes too, evidently. Far from freeing us from the snarl of binary gender expectations, big tech seems determined to hammer them into us. Surely, we all deserve a more inclusive sexual future than this.

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Will you soon be able to own your own, unprecedentedly sophisticated artificial companion?

Xpeng, a China-based company specializing in electric vehicles, recently announced the 2026 release of what could be the most sophisticated humanoid robot to date. The robot features software modeled after science fiction author Issac Asimov’s legendary three laws of robotics, as well as lifelike synthetic skin.

The 2nd generation models continue Xpeng’s IRON humanoid robot intiative and were recently revealed during its AI Day event held in Guangzhou, China. The new models are less industrially blocky, more aesthetically—even sensually— appealing, and allow for the “customization for different body shapes.”

Big step forward?

The robots are intended to serve as tour/shopping guides and traffic wardens, but purchasers will also be able to customize their robot’s color and hairstyle, and additional clothing options planned for the future.

The Xpeng site also describes their robots as having “82 degrees of freedom throughout the body, its movements are natural, smooth, and flexible, capable of achieving catwalk walking and other high-difficulty human-like actions.”

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If you’re worried they might be a little too advanced, Xpeng also made a point of saying their robots’ are encoded with Issac Asimov’s three laws: (1) never directly, or by inaction, harm a human; (2) obey whatever a human says unless conflicts with the first law; and (3) to preserve itself except when doing so would violate laws one and two with Xpeng installed a forth, i.e. ‘”Privacy data does not leave the robot” to maximize the protection of the safety of participants in the physical AI world.”

Or smoke and mirrors?

What has been revealed about the new IRON robots is certainly impressive, especially when Xpeng demonstrated their naturalistic fluidity. However, there’s a lot that hasn’t been disclosed.

Battery life is one aspect; aside from stating that they’re “all-solid-state,” Xpeng neglected to specify how long the robots can function or the time required to charge them fully. After all, we only see them moving relatively short distances and not interacting with anything or anyone, leaving the question of whether Xpeng’s next year release date is accurate or PR hype.

Not around the corner?

If Xpeng’s claims aren’t corporate hyperbole, we could be seeing a major turning point in the development of exceptionally lifelike artificial companions: watching how naturally they walk makes it easy to imagine the same sort of technology being integrated into any of the current super-sophisticated, anatomically correct dolls.

For instance, if we could attach a ReadDoll Harmony X head, with its eye tracking, head swiveling, and other sensually alluring features we might make one of our most erotically enduring dreams a reality in less than a year, two at the most.

Even if most of Xpeng’s promises fail to materialize, producing a robot capable of mimicking a human’s movements could still be a massive game-changer.  Even if their robots can’t function independently—or at least not for an extended period—it’d be a very small price to pay to have a walking, sitting, dancing, and so on artificial companion—albeit one that requires an extension cord to do so.

But maybe the next?

Likewise, should Xpeng’s much-touted naturalistic skin prove to be anything but, today’s synthetic companion manufacturers have already beaten them to it, having pretty much perfected giving their products the look and feel of lifelike human skin.

It’s reasonable to view Xpeng’s claims with some skepticism. But even if a few of their claimed advancements are delayed, we still might be witnessing a pivotal moment in the design and manufacturing of tomorrow’s human-looking, human-feeling, human-acting artificial companions.

And then, before you know it, humanity may have the benefit of such companions, whether we are ready for this or not.

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Ill-informed statement only further stigmatizes artificial companion relationships

In an MIT Review interview, Mustafa Suleyman, the current CEO of Microsoft AI, expressed his strong concerns regarding Musk’s Grok and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which recently enabled adult interactions, and whether Microsoft would follow suit. He gave a pointedly direct reply: Never!

But his answer raises a question that should be equally direct: Does Suleyman reflect a savvy business decision, or is it merely a sign of an older, more socially conservative company’s reluctance to stand up and say it’s actually for the customers’ happiness, regardless of what turns them on?

People first?

Suleyman said that despite Grok and OpenAI’s enabling their products to talk dirty, Microsoft instead is taking a different approach, specifically:

Yeah, we will never build sex robots. Sad in a way that we have to be so clear about that, but that’s just not our mission as a company. The joy of being at Microsoft is that for 50 years, the company has built, you know, software to empower people, to put people first.

Suleyman went on to add that this means Microsoft might not be as quick to respond as other companies in its field. However, its more cautious approach is “a feature, not a bug, in this age, when being attentive to potential side effects and longer-term consequences is really important.”

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When pressed to explain, Suleyman responded, “We’re very clear on, you know, trying to create an AI that fosters a meaningful relationship. It’s not that it’s trying to be cold and anodyne—it cares about being fluid and lucid and kind. It definitely has some emotional intelligence.”

For example, Suleyman explained that while Microsoft’s Real Talk chatbot might be “a bit more cheeky, it’s a bit more fun …but if you try and flirt with it, it’ll push back and it’ll be very clear—not in a judgmental way, but just, like, “Look, that’s not for me.’”

Who do you serve?

Making Suleyman’s responses puzzling is how, on one hand, he says Microsoft is all about putting people first while failing to understand that they also sometimes need more than a merely flirty chatbot.

Helping to drive this home, when asked for his opinion on whether the use of AIs with strong personalities is a good or not-so-good idea, Suleyman said it was the former, though he felt it needed to be limited:

There are some things which we’re saying are just off the table, and there are other things which we’re going to be more experimental with. Like, certain people have complained that they don’t get enough pushback from Copilot—they want it to be more challenging. Other people aren’t looking for that kind of experience—they want it to be a basic information provider. The task for us is just learning to disentangle what type of experience to give to different people.

The interview left me confused as it appears that Suleyman can’t explain precisely why Microsoft has taken such a firm stance—and if it’s truly about providing users with what they want, then why shouldn’t at least one of their AI products allow for them to engage in sexually explorative chats?

Protest too much?

At the risk of reading too much into it, it feels as if Suleyman is playing defense: repeating that other companies, like Grok and OpenAI, can give their customers what they want, but Microsoft won’t.

Another more than slightly troubling aspect is why he felt it was necessary to be so adamantly anti-sexbot, especially since the interviewer didn’t ask about artificial companions, just if its competitors’ now-sexualized products may have made Microsoft AI rethink its anti-adult entertainment stance.

You’d think an expert would know the difference between erotic AI software and an intrinsically material sex robot—and if Suleyman doesn’t, then maybe he should spend time researching the difference if he’s going to take such a strong stance against them.

Not only that, but unfortunately like Grok and Open AI—who despite profiting off adult AI chats, don’t respect their customers’ emotional wellbeing—and so many others, it looks as if we’ll have to add Microsoft to the list of companies who claim to serve people but in reality don’t (or won’t) understand that sex isn’t just fun but what makes us human.

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