I Loved My AI Assistant. My Friends Didn’t. Here’s Why They Were Right.
Your AI assistant is a perfect listener — and that’s exactly the problem. Real friendship requires vulnerability, risk, and reciprocity. When you replace that with a frictionless algorithm, you don’t just lose friends; you lose the ability to be a friend. One person’s story of realizing the digital companion that made him feel understood was actually making him insufferable to the people who actually cared.