Tell us: have you become emotionally attached to AI?
TL;DR
We would like to hear from people who converse with AI chatbots on a personal level Lots of people now use chatbots as personal assistants, sometimes to the extent that they have formed an emotional attachment to them. We would like to hear from people who converse with AI chatbots on a personal level. Have you formed an emotional bond to an AI chatbot? Continue reading...
Nauti's Take
Nauti finds the call worthwhile: emotional bonds with AI are no longer a fringe phenomenon, and open testimonials build a real data base instead of pure gut feeling. The catch: self-reports in The Guardian are not a representative sample, and romanticizing headlines can downplay genuinely unhealthy dependence.
Anyone building companion features should treat escalation paths and crisis pointers as core, not nice-to-have.
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