It's not that people are getting lured into spending time with ChatGPT instead of fellow human, but rather that the value of human interaction itself completely

It's not that people are getting lured into spending time with ChatGPT instead of fellow human, but rather that the value of human interaction itself completely collapsed. 200 years ago if you wanted to survive you absolutely had to have friends and exchange favors with them, and in many places you also needed to have a partner. People stayed in bad relationships because that was the better option. Like, ok, your husband beats you, but also does a lot of work growing crops, and getting beaten beats starving to death. At some point we just... stopped needing other people. It's perfectly viable to live on single income, and getting yourself into the complex world of "he did me a favor so I need to do him a favor" doesn't make sense when you can buy/rent everything you need for a few dollars. The only reason why you'd form relationships with other people is for fun. And most relationships aren't fun. They are difficult, they require lots of work, compromise, empathy, mutual understanding, openness, and so on. If this doesn't come to you naturally, you're screwed. I don't care about being an evolutionary dead-end because when I look at families around me I see that committing yourself to spreading your genetic material is rarely a good deal. Once we figure out how to make AI models fun, there will be no reason to form relationships at all. I'm not ashamed to say that I'd have zero reservations forming a bond with a robot. In fact, I'd be happy to be an early adopter.