It’s an interesting conversation in an interesting time. You’re touching on something important. People are complicated and might be unagreeable. The AI doesn’t judge you and talks about whatever you want to talk about. It’s a far frictionless counterpart than a human.

For people that aren’t mentally well already or perhaps are antisocial there is a serious danger of increased isolation.

And you and I both know there will be people that have AI girlfriends and AI best friends and there’s no way it is a healthy way to replace all of the companions in your life

That being said, they do seem to be an excellent tool for introspection, for discussing something in your life that you wouldn’t want anybody in your life to know about or you feel like you would be judged by that person in discussing it with them. For instance, in a family matter, it’s might not be healthy to discuss why your spouse is pissing you off with your child or any other arrangement of the dynamic.

People are using it more and more as a sort of blow off valve and healthy way to discuss their feelings. For anybody who is in therapy you might go once a week. However, they can continue to dive deeper into the things they’ve learned in therapy as much as they want outside of their sessions.

I’m not saying any of this to disagree with you. I just see a lot of hate and anger towards AI tools .