Short excerpt from a YouTube video in which two speakers discuss rising antisocial trends and react to the idea of AI companions ("AI boyfriend/girlfriend"). One speaker expresses strong negative feelings—calling it "really sad"—and reluctance to treat AI as a friend, noting judgement and concern about growing social isolation.
We're at a particularly, like, antisocial point.
What do you think about AI boyfriend, AI girlfriend, AI companions? Would you go for it?
Really sad. Really sad. Even sad to think about. Yeah. Okay.
You would not go for it.
No. I, on one hand, am, like, very judgmental, where I probably shouldn't be as much of that.
Yeah.
But I think there's. It would take a lot for me to get to the point where I would turn to even AI as like, a friend. And I guess in some regard, with that perspective, I've been lucky in a way. But I think we're at a particularly antisocial point. It's becoming more common. It's not super common, but the fact that it has happened more than once already is, like, it's scary and sad.
