Die Frauen verliebt in KI -Begleiter: „Ich habe meinen Chatbot geschworen, dass ich ihn nicht verlassen würde“ | Experten sind besorgt über Menschen emotional, je nach KI, aber diese Frauen sagen, dass ihre digitalen Begleiter missverstanden werden

One[ study](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/research/report/talk-trust-and-trade-offs_2025_web.pdf) found that 72% of teens have used AI companions, and 52% of them talk to one regularly – before they have experienced the real thing. “Teens might be missing out on practicing really important [relationship] skills with human partners.”

„These large corporations are, in effect, running a very large-scale experiment on all of humanity.“

(Can’t really summarize this article, too anecdata/story driven, but it’s clear that this is just the beginning of this stuff and gonna get weird)

I never really understood the AI companion/ChatGPT thing. It so very clearly tells me what it thinks I want to hear about whatever situation I feed into it. It doesn’t give honest feedback, if even there is such a thing, and it does everything it can to make me feel special… unless I’m using it as a resource.

It’s a lot like Tarot in this way. See, Hollywood and pop culture has people thinking that Tarot is a way to divine the unseen, to be granted special vision, to be able to peek behind the curtain the reality and see how it all works. This is wrong, for the same reason Astrology is wrong: its all so open-ended that any answer you want to find is findable within the deck. The trick, of course, is understanding that you want to find a particular answer, and why that answer is so important to you that it plagues your subconscious and haunts your conscious enough to seek any answer that you can.

I learned a great deal, the biggest lessons, the most important lessons, that I could knowing that my life and what I might want mean absolutely nothing to anyone else. Some people may take it into consideration. Others may make you feel like what you do and think actually matters, but the truth is its all just a manipulation tactic. For other human beings, its easy to understand: they manipulate for their own ends. For AI? Is there even an endgame? Who’s controlling this beast and why and to what end?

Question what you are told, even if its what you want to hear… *especially* if its what you want to hear.

They spent so much time thinking about whether or not they could…you know the rest

This is just a modern retelling of the story of Narcissus. These bots reflect you back to you.