Vast Numbers of Lonely Kids Are Using AI as Substitute Friends

Vast Numbers of Lonely Kids People Are Using AI as Substitute Friends

"Reporting" otherwise is complicity. Fucking wake up

Joke’s on me: my mind goes blank and I’m just as awkward trying to talk to a robot as I am trying to talk to a stranger (“Am I wording this question right? Will the robot think I’m a dummy for saying it this way? Aw fuck I’m tripping over my words, abort, abort!”).

Alas, I find myself not talking to LLMs at all.

And we thought our society was a factory for turning kids into shooters before

Things are only going to get worse. These synthetic text extruding machines are going to push the mentally unstable into delusions, self harm or worse:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/13/study-warns-of-significant-risks-in-using-ai-therapy-chatbots/

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/chatgpt-ai-therapy-chatbot-psychosis-mental-health-b2784454.html

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/ai-therapy-bots-fuel-delusions-and-give-dangerous-advice-stanford-study-finds/

We need to get people real therapy and human contact. This capitalist system needs to burn.