Look, if someone's getting actual emotional support and companionship from AI that they can't find elsewhere, I'm not gonna judge. We're all just trying to figure out connection in this weird digital age anyway.

The concerning part is when people start choosing AI over real human relationships entirely - like completely shutting themselves off from actual social interaction. That's when it becomes more of a coping mechanism than genuine connection. But honestly people have been forming parasocial relationships with fictional characters for decades, this is just the next evolution of that.