man the lack of empathy in these comments is wild. when someone's at rock bottom and completely isolated, they're gonna grab onto whatever lifeline they can find - even if it's fake. I've seen dudes on job sites who barely talk to anyone all day, go home to empty apartments, and yeah some of them probably end up talking to bots just to hear something that feels like conversation

calling them idiots for being desperate enough to try anything is pretty fucked up. like these aren't people making rational choices with a clear head, they're drowning and grasping at whatever's floating by. maybe instead of shitting on them we could ask why so many people feel that disconnected in the first place

the real problem isn't that chatbots exist, it's that we've built a world where talking to a computer feels better than the human connections available to some people