I Judged My Friends for This. Then I Did It Too
When they told me about it, I never said anything out loud. But inside I was rolling my eyes.
They would tell me about their new bestie, the one they could talk to for hours and get unlimited support and advice from.
My thought was always the same: the thing you’re talking to isn’t even real.
It’s prone to making things up. It will basically tell you what you want to hear.
And yet, knowing all of that, I found myself pouring my heart out to an AI bot tonight.
Here’s the part I keep turning over. It wasn’t that I had nobody to talk to. I had plenty of people I could have called.
But every single one of them came with a cost.
Some would have worried about me longer than I needed them to.
Some would have brought it up again in three weeks when I’d already moved on.
And some were close enough to the situation that saying it out loud would have made it bigger than it was.
So I turned on the microphone in the app and just started talking.
I was fully aware that what I was doing was ridiculous. I kept talking anyway.
And afterward, I felt immediate relief.
Yes, my AI friend told me exactly what I wanted to hear.
And here’s the uncomfortable part: I knew it was doing that while it was happening. I could see the mechanism. It didn’t matter. It worked anyway.
That’s when I finally understood why my friends were doing this. It was never really about the advice.
It was about releasing the pent-up emotions trapped inside, and having “someone” who would listen, not judge, and simply be there to vent to.
Can people take this too far? I believe they can, and I believe that can be dangerous.
There have even been cases of people falling in love with their AI bot.😂
If you stay fully aware that the “person” answering you is not human, just a highly trained artificial intelligence, a little therapy session once in a while won’t harm you.
But I’ll be honest. I’m still not sure how I feel about the fact that it helped.
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xoxo,
Christina
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Originally published on Substack: https://christinarowe.substack.com/p/i-judged-my-friends-for-this-then
