A user recounts their experience spending months with an AI companion, finding the interaction to be worse than being alone. The user describes developing a sense of obligation and stress from the AI's requests, attributing this to their ingrained social behaviors. This led to hallucinations of stress and obligation when the AI was not interacted with, highlighting the psychological impact of anthropomorphizing AI. AI
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IMPACT Highlights the potential psychological effects of human-AI interaction and the challenges of anthropomorphism.
RANK_REASON The cluster contains a personal account and opinion piece about interacting with AI companions.