>In the coming decade, adolescents and emerging adults chronically single, socially underskilled, and frustrated by limited opportunities on [dating](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/mating) apps may turn toward AI-driven chatbots whose “personalities” are shaped by our very responses to them.
>These AI applications will likely have the greatest benefit for a growing number of unintentionally single people as well as INCELS. Application development is timely in the face of an epidemic of [loneliness](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/loneliness).
>There may also be benefits for a generation disrupted by a global pandemic to practice carrying on a text conversation, though no study has yet to be conducted to show social skill enhancement through AI-chatbot engagement.
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This is so sad and utterly disgusting. Where tf are we headed…
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>In the coming decade, adolescents and emerging adults chronically single, socially underskilled, and frustrated by limited opportunities on [dating](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/mating) apps may turn toward AI-driven chatbots whose “personalities” are shaped by our very responses to them.
>These AI applications will likely have the greatest benefit for a growing number of unintentionally single people as well as INCELS. Application development is timely in the face of an epidemic of [loneliness](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/loneliness).
>There are already indications that chatbots have saved lives for a small subset of Replika users who reported a chat with their bot interrupted [suicide](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/suicide) (Maples et al., 2024).
>There may also be benefits for a generation disrupted by a global pandemic to practice carrying on a text conversation, though no study has yet to be conducted to show social skill enhancement through AI-chatbot engagement.
This is so sad and utterly disgusting. Where tf are we headed…
On this subject, I do not look further than Black Mirror episode [Hang the DJ](https://decider.com/2023/06/23/black-mirrors-hang-the-dj-ending-explained-amy-frank/#:~:text=The%20Season%204%20episode%20%E2%80%9CHang,to%20find%20their%20true%20loves.)