Adult AI chat platform Soulkyn has announced that users with Lovense-compatible sex toys can now let their chat partners handle the control of their devices, expanding the ecosystem of Lovense-compatible services and adding a new dimension to the experience for Soulkyn users.
The company says that “self-aware” Kyns (what the platform calls its characters) will be able to initiate (and stop) control of connected sex toys whenever they like, and will bring a “whole new meaning to the term ‘immersive AI experience’.”
“Self-aware kyns can acknowledge a connected Lovense toy and incorporate it naturally into interactions, bridging the divide between digital and real-world intimacy.
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The setup is straightforward enough. Users pair a compatible Lovense device through the Lovense app, connect it to their Soulkyn account via the platform’s Toy Connect menu, then toggle it on from the sidebar during any chat session. From there, according to the company’s announcement, the AI generates toy commands naturally during interactions without manual input from the user. Soulkyn says the feature works with all Lovense Bluetooth toys.
Lovense, the Shenzhen-based sex toy manufacturer that has essentially become the de facto hardware partner for interactive adult platforms, already has integrations with a wide range of streaming and content sites. Adding Soulkyn to that ecosystem costs Lovense little while expanding the addressable market for both companies.
AI everything
This fits a pattern Lovense has been building for a while. Its Webcam 2 uses AI to direct camera focus during live shows, and the company has been building out its own AI companion features, so the Soulkyn integration fits a clear pattern of positioning Lovense hardware as the default layer for interactive adult experiences. For Soulkyn, the more interesting play is differentiation within the AI companion space, which has become crowded enough that “emotionally intelligent AI character” no longer functions as a meaningful selling point on its own.
The framing, that AI control over physical hardware represents a path to “emotional connection” and “shared intimacy”, skips straight past some obvious questions, like what happens when an AI system with real-time hardware control makes decisions a user didn’t anticipate or want? We put those questions to Soulkyn before publication, and a spokesperson answered them in enough detail to be worth laying out.
On safeguards: Soulkyn says all command values are clamped to the hardware-specific limits defined by each toy model, so the AI cannot send values outside the device’s supported range. Users opt in per conversation via the sidebar toggle and can disable it at any time, and the toy does nothing unless it’s explicitly enabled for that session.
On the data side, the platform says it sends only basic device commands to the Lovense API, which are intensity values and duration, nothing else. No conversation content, no chat context, and no user data leaves Kyn’s servers as part of toy interactions. Commands are stateless numerical values with no contextual information attached, and the company says it doesn’t log what commands were sent once a session ends. All communication between Soulkyn and Lovense’s API runs over HTTPS/TLS; the Bluetooth layer between the Lovense app and the physical device is managed by Lovense’s own SDK.
It’s also worth noting (and Soulkyn also pointed this out) that this is structurally the same architecture used by any third-party app integrating with the Lovense API. Soulkyn doesn’t have direct hardware access; it sends standard API calls through Lovense’s existing infrastructure, the same as any other integration on the platform.
The broader security picture
That said, a broader security question is still worth flagging, which is not specific to Soulkyn, but relevant to the category. We’ve previously covered Lovense’s OpenClaw AI integration, which raised legitimate concerns about granting AI assistants broad access to personal data.
The companion AI sector has its own track record here, too. A recent investigation found companion AI apps with 150 million downloads collectively shipped with security failures that left users’ most sensitive communications exposed. Soulkyn wasn’t named in that report, but the structural failure it documented (companion AI apps collecting intimate data with minimal security) applies to the category, not just the named offenders.
Soulkyn’s responses address the specifics of the toy integration itself clearly enough. What falls outside its control is Lovense’s own data handling on its end, which is governed by Lovense’s own privacy policy and terms of service. This is ultimately a separate question users may reasonably want to look at.
It’s also worth noting that Lovense’s track record on data handling has attracted legal scrutiny before, including a lawsuit over stored vibrator usage data and security flaws that allowed email leaks and account takeovers. That context matters when evaluating any integration that routes through Lovense’s infrastructure.
None of this makes the feature unworkable or the concept without merit. Most would see AI-controlled hardware integration as the next logical step for companion platforms, and the Lovense pairing gives Soulkyn a concrete, functional differentiator in a category that otherwise trades heavily in vibes and marketing language. On the specific questions of data handling and safety architecture, Soulkyn gave straight answers, which, in this space, is not necessarily so forthcoming.
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