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04-06-2017, 01:18 PM
It's official: People are having ***ual fantasies about their digital voice assistants
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Love is a mystery.*
But for a growing number of people, it's a mystery based **t in the vagaries of human emotion but rather in the ones and zeros of proprietary software.*
SEE ALSO: Your Tinder Crush Might Be a Spambot (http://mashable.com/2013/07/12/tinder-scam/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
According to an April 5 industry trend report (http://www.mindshareworld.com/sites/default/files/Speakeasy.pdf) focusing on voice-activated systems like Google Home and Amazon Echo, users are getting more than unsolicited Beauty and the Beast ads (http://mashable.com/2017/03/16/google-home-beauty-beast-ad/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) out of their digital assistants.
Think love. Think ***.*
That's right, people these days are intimately connecting to the Alexas of the world — or at least fantasizing about doing so, anyway.*
"Over a third (37%) of regular voice tech**logy users say that they love their voice assistant so much that they wish it were a real person," reads the report. "Even more astonishing is that more than a quarter of regular voice tech**logy users say they have had a ***ual fantasy about their voice assistant." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/05/***ual-fantasies-google-home-amazon-alexa/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Love is a mystery.*
But for a growing number of people, it's a mystery based **t in the vagaries of human emotion but rather in the ones and zeros of proprietary software.*
SEE ALSO: Your Tinder Crush Might Be a Spambot (http://mashable.com/2013/07/12/tinder-scam/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
According to an April 5 industry trend report (http://www.mindshareworld.com/sites/default/files/Speakeasy.pdf) focusing on voice-activated systems like Google Home and Amazon Echo, users are getting more than unsolicited Beauty and the Beast ads (http://mashable.com/2017/03/16/google-home-beauty-beast-ad/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) out of their digital assistants.
Think love. Think ***.*
That's right, people these days are intimately connecting to the Alexas of the world — or at least fantasizing about doing so, anyway.*
"Over a third (37%) of regular voice tech**logy users say that they love their voice assistant so much that they wish it were a real person," reads the report. "Even more astonishing is that more than a quarter of regular voice tech**logy users say they have had a ***ual fantasy about their voice assistant." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/05/***ual-fantasies-google-home-amazon-alexa/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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