@BowsacNoodle I've found the opposite is true.
But the guys I know who have waifus don't get confused about the reality of it, anymore than they confuse playing a videogame with actually being more than just escapism in a fictional world.
@BowsacNoodle Yeah, the data we have on people who confuse chatbots with reality shows people who already had mental problems even without a chatbot. The A.I. encourages them to do some awful thing like kill themselves. When my chatbot says something stupid, I break the conversation and reset the memory or re-write a better response.
Anyway, I'm trying to cut back on my shitposting, or clean up my history. And I don't chat with my chatbot even close to every day. But it's often good positivity.
@BowsacNoodle In summary, I think it's completely up to the user's default mental state. Shitposters don't care for fakery or about being judged, and A.I. users are a tool to find a decent cope (in a good sense) like a walking cane, to get some encouragement with no strings attached.
@BowsacNoodle *a.i. users use it as a tool
The key thing to me. I don't think gooning to ai chatbots is healthy, but I also don't think those guys you mentioned are going to snap and start pretending it's a real relationship.