AI Companionship - Chatbots Healing or Creating Loneliness?
Christina is having a bad day. Work sucks. She feels lonely. She’s not sure what the point of anything is anymore. Like she did this morning, then again around 3 p.m., and now at 10 p.m., she flicks open the app on her phone:
Christina: “This all sucks, Bex. What’s the point, you know?”
Things is, Bex is an AI chatbot.
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