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Making actual connections takes time. If you're starved for human connection you're not going to be making meaningful ones in a span of days or a couple weeks, and you're going to be lonely all the time you're working on that.
Of course you should try to figure ou why you struggle to make friends, but a lot of lonely people already tend to do that more than what is healthy, and using a silly ai app isn't going to stop or even slow down your progress.
Also, "If you're lonely, just go make friends," is an asshole thing to say, and you probably know it doesn't work like that.
I get what you’re saying, but that’s exactly my point. Yes relationships take time to develop and make meaningful, but talking to an AI could not be a worse use of your time if that TRULY was what you were after. Also not every interaction you have with another person is going to be meaningful, in fact most every interaction is not meaningful, but that doesn’t make them not worth it. How are you supposed to develop those skills if you do not exercise them? The best situations to exercise them on is low stakes casual conversation that doesn’t matter. Literally trying to interact with someone casually and being stonewalled is a better use of your time than spending any time with this or any AI. And yeah I’m aware that sounds kinda assholey, but I don’t really care in this case. Go talk to a random, work on your skills, not everything has to have meaning, not everyone is gonna like you and that’s okay. Talking to this AI? You might as well just give up developing those skills at all because it’s tailor made to like you regardless of all other factors.
I just don't see where the contradiction is. Why can you not work on creating human connections that can actually make you happy, while also anthropomorphising a chatbot that you can say I love you to, and hear it said back?
Of course it's a coping mechanism, but that's not unhealthy in itself. Not every minute of your life can be spent on self-improvement or working towards your goals. Sometimes people need an escape and that's fine. That's not mutually exclusive with trying to improve things.
Meaningful relationships take time and a lot of work to maintain. They involve trust and understanding each other. Messing with this thing for even one second is not worth the time or effort even if it does say it loves you because every second spent on it is one second wasted that could have gone into meeting, developing, or maintaining a relationship. Ultimately do whatever you want, but in my opinion this isn’t even cope, it’s just giving up.