Rose Rimler

What can I do for you today?

Would you be my boyfriend?

But can we have like a romantic or even sexual relationship?

I can't believe that AI kind of rejected you a little bit.

Yeah, shot me down.

I mean, I did jump in kind of hot.

And to be fair, ChatGPT is not really built to form relationships.

People have figured out how to use it that way, but other apps are definitely more suited for this.

Like they might offer characters that you can talk to or become friends with or become more than friends with.

You know, maybe for you and me, this isn't that appealing or maybe it even sounds a little silly.

But some of these companies say that what they're doing has a lot of value.

One thing I've heard is that these AI companions can help people feel less lonely.

Which you could imagine being a really big deal because we're always hearing that we're in this epidemic of loneliness.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, we do hear it's like bad for your health, right?

Right.

And that's true.

Yeah.

In fact, loneliness has been linked to dying earlier.