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pornbot

pornbot noun: an automated account on a social-media platform that spams users with advertisements for pornographic content or sexual services.

Noun

pornbot (plural pornbots)

  1. (Internet) An automated account on a social-media platform that spams users with advertisements for pornographic content or sexual services.
    • As I learned, they [furries] are protective about their communities, as well they should be. Otherwise these worlds would be overrun with trolls and pornbots and idiots whose sole purpose is to cause trouble.2005, Regina Lynn, The Sexual Revolution 2.0, page 125
    • Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, which is the new owner of MySpace, could go bankrupt (wishful thinking), or, more likely, could allow the site to be overrun with ads, spam, or pornbots posing as humans.2009, David Mathison, Be the Media: How to Create and Accelerate Your Message...Your Way, page 104
  2. (derogatory, slang, sometimes) A robot or artificial intelligence designed to have (simulated) sex with humans.
    • “Pornbots” are the sexual Barbies of the future – virtual reality prostitutes run by artificial intelligence (not that they will need much intelligence).2011, Dave Monroe, Porn - Philosophy for Everyone How to Think With Kink, page 207
    • Of course pornbots had been going strong for years and I'd been on a few business trips where progressive hotels had begun listing robotic “services” as part of their adult offerings.2016, John C. Havens, Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines, page 4

Examples of pornbot in a sentence

  • I probably identify 50 new followers as pornbots every week.2013, Shelly Palmer, Digital Wisdom: Thought Leadership for a Connected World, page 32:
  • On the campaign's website, the campaigners declare that their number 1 goal is to “abolish pornbots in the form of women and girls.”2023, Sven Nyholm, This Is Technology Ethics: An Introduction, page 26:

Synonyms of pornbot

Forms of pornbot

pluralpornbots

Origin of pornbot

From porn + -bot.

Questions about pornbot

What does pornbot mean?
Pornbot means an automated account on a social-media platform that spams users with advertisements for pornographic content or sexual services.
How do you use pornbot in a sentence?
I probably identify 50 new followers as pornbots every week.
What part of speech is pornbot?
Pornbot is a noun.
What is the plural of pornbot?
The plural of pornbot is pornbots.

Words near pornbot in the dictionary

  1. pornabilly
  2. pornado
  3. pornados
  4. pornaholic
  5. pornaholics
  6. pornbot
  7. pornbots
  8. pornerastic
  9. pornfest
  10. pornfests
  11. Porngate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pornbot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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