Some people are definitely ending up on the naughty list this Christmas.
Erotic audio platform BLOOM now lets users ‘sext’ with Father Christmas himself.
To celebrate the festive season, users of the bizarre AI chat service will now be able to speak with a ‘hot Santa’ or his ‘naughty elf’.
The AI will not only send flirty texts but even create unique audio messages in the voice of the Christmas characters.
So if you’re feeling frisky this festive season, you can now live out your fantasy from the comfort of your own phone.
To celebrate the festive season, audio platform BLOOM is letting users chat with an AI ‘hot Santa’ who will send texts and even voice notes
BLOOM’s AI Santa will send flirty texts and erotic voice messages to users based on their responses and preferences
Some of the Christmas-themed one-liners from this Santa-bot are certainly not what you would expect from the jolly old man.
In one example shared by BLOOM, Santa says: ‘Santa knows how to keep the North Pole interesting during those long winter nights.
‘If you’ve been very naughty this year, I could share some of those stories with you.’
In another, the bot writes: ‘Santa can keep you warm in more ways than one. I’ll make sure you stay nice and toasty during the cold winter nights.’
And in one example, the Santa-bot simply says: ‘Santa’s sack is filled with all kinds of naughty surprises.’
The sexy Santa comes after BLOOM first launched its Chat feature in September.
The company creates bespoke bots using a combination of recordings from human voice actors and prewritten scripts.
This allows the AI to automatically generate responses in the voice of a given character in response to users’ requests and preferences.
Since it launched, the company says that users have exchanged more than six million messages with AI characters and have received more than 3,300 hours of erotic voice notes.
Hannah Albertshauser, co-founder of BLOOM, told MailOnline that the bots have been ‘created with ethics at their heart, centring on consensual, adult interactions which set a new, realistic standard for pleasure.’
Ms Albertshauser explained: ‘Our chatbots are unique because they’re trained on the scripts and voice profiles of our unique characters.
‘We had a lot of fun creating Santa. We worked with one of our most popular voice actors to create the voice; and we programmed the bot using festive pick-up lines to inject some humour and Christmas spirit.’
While Ms Albershauser says that the sexy Santa bot is ‘a bit of festive fun’, it also has a slightly more serious function.
Despite all the talk of mistletoe, research suggests that the run-up to Christmas is actually one of the least sexy times of the year.
It isn’t just Santa who is getting an AI makeover as BLOOM has also released a bot with the character of a ‘naughty elf’
Previous studies indicate that sex drops off almost completely in the three days leading up to December 25.
In a statement, BLOOM says these characters serve as ‘a light-hearted reminder to users to have fun and not neglect their sex lives during the festive season.’
However, hot Santa won’t be hanging around forever as the character is only temporary.
Ms Albertshauser said: ‘As with the real Santa, sexy Santa is only working over the festive season. So whilst he’s proving popular at the moment, we’re prepared for interest to remain seasonal.’
However, she told MailOnline that the company would consider adding more seasonal characters for different holidays of the year.
She added: ‘When it comes to sexual content, we all have unique and specific desires we want to see fulfilled.
‘If a festive character is what somebody needs to get them in the mood over the holidays, BLOOM is here for it.’
IS THIS THE FUTURE OF PORN? AI IS USED TO AUTOMATICALLY RECREATE NUDE PORTRAITS
An artificially intelligent (AI) machine that creates surreal nude portraits has been built by a teenager in Virginia.
AI whiz Robbie Barrat fed a neural network – an AI that functions like the human brain – thousands of naked portraits and then trained it to create its own racy artworks.
In a Twitter post, he said the software often paints people as fleshy blobs spouting random tendrils and limbs, adding: ‘I wonder if that’s how machines see us’.
An artificially intelligent (AI) machine that creates surreal nude portraits has been built by a teenager in Virginia
While most of the women in the images appear lumpy and misshapen, some of the subjects closely resemble slender, standing figures.
Mr Barrat, who recently graduated high school in West Virginia, said he is currently doing ‘deep learning interning’ for AI computing giant NVIDIA.
He said the AI created images by interpreting a set of ‘rules’ about the shapes, sizes and colours of figures that it learned by looking at thousands of nude portraits.
To train the algorithm – a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) – he mostly used portraits from ‘a few hundred years ago at least’.
