I wrote about AI companions, adolescent boys, and the difference between losing a social capacity and never developing it in the first place.
The danger here isn't atrophy. It's the danger of never developing the the muscle at all.
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In my essay The Main Character, I wrote about drift. About people who opened ChatGPT to write an email and found themselves, six months later, conceiving themselves as "married" to the AI. The mechani...
