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.