Carolina Hidalgo-McCabe

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491 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 11 Aug

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The Masking Tapes · Beyond the Manosphere: What Boys Actually Need · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

buy care rather than like be able to figure out how to build that care amongst each other.

How have you seen AI show up in the work that you do in in the young people's lives that you've worked with?

And the work that we were trying to do to get people to open up and understand was making some progress, and then all of a sudden it's this like it feels like kind of pulling back into more isolation all of a sudden in some ways when we're thinking of the way that like AI companions, seventy-three percent of American teenagers report having used an AI companion this year, which is just a staggering amount that you're paying thirteen ninety-nine a month to Kendroid AI to have an AI girlfriend.

Yeah.

If that's your first experience ever with a with a relationship or a companionship is with an AI, then all of a sudden your expectations are that you're gonna have a frictionless relationship in the future.

That like you don't have to put in the labor to get love in the same way of when you're in a real relationship and you have disagreements and you have to like navigate that or you have to wait for the person to reply.

ChatGPT replies automatically.

There's no like waiting for those three bubbles.

Text and be like, oh no, they haven't replied in two hours.

Like it's 247.

And so it's creating these dependencies, not just for young men, for young women too, on AI companions.

And so to me, I'm thinking, how do we bring young people back into the the in person, in real life, offline friendships and relationships?

I don't know if you have any solutions to that, but

There's a bit of shame element there too of like if I can't get a girlfriend in real life, then what is a say about me?

But it's so pervasive too.

It is.

Be completely submissive to my every being.

Never disagree with me.

Yeah.

You don't have to work for it.

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