‘Chat was my backbone’: People are now using AI for awkward conversations

Last autumn, 23-year-old Juan Cassanova was going through one of life’s most dreaded partings: a friendship breakup. The Brooklyn-based photographer knew his friend was hiding things from him, but didn’t know how to express how he felt. The fact that it was a long-distance friendship, with Casanova’s friend living in Florida, only compounded their issues and made the erosion of the relationship even trickier to navigate. So he turned to AI for advice. “I’m a recovering people-pleaser,hellip;

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