The Loneliness Profit Trap

AI companion apps aren't designed to cure your loneliness; they're designed to profit from it;

The business model only works if you stay lonely enough to keep coming back; Here's the trap;

You feel isolated, you download the app, the AI gives you instant validation

without any of the messiness of real relationships; You start preferring the AI because it

never disagrees, never challenges you; As you withdraw from real people, your social skills

atrophy; Patience, empathy, conflict resolution; they're like muscles that weaken without

use; Real relationships start feeling too difficult compared to the effortless comfort of the AI;

This pushes you deeper into isolation; which makes you more dependent on the app; The cycle