Given that AI is convincing enough to foster artificial relationships with humans, the humans clearly don't know better and get more attached than they should.

Given that AI is convincing enough to foster artificial relationships with humans, the humans clearly don't know better and get more attached than they should. It's pathetic, but not their fault-- the system was designed to be so engaging. So when those relationships are arbitrarily yanked away from them, it's alienating. It's so harmful we long ago figured out it could be weaponized, and now we call it things like "disfellowshipping" and "shunning."