Probably not just kids. One of the more recent-ish trends in social-media feminism is a negative view towards an unequal distribution of "emotional labor" in a

Probably not just kids. One of the more recent-ish trends in social-media feminism is a negative view towards an unequal distribution of "emotional labor" in a relationship. But even the current generation of AI is great at that type of "labor". It acts compassionate, is always available, isn't judging, won't rat you out or use your weaknesses against you in the next argument. And the ability to make appointments for you, keep track of social obligations, birthdays and your grocery list is mostly there too, even if it still comes with challenges. Of course the downsides are just as myriad as the upsides. People used to care how much Google knows about them, now they willingly tell their private thoughts to ChatGPT or Gemini. Also AI is great at mimicking compassion, but it doesn't actually feel anything, it's closer to a calculating psychopath mimicking emotions (without even going into the whole debate whether current AI can reason or just does something that to us looks similar to reasoning). And of course most importantly, everyone "connecting" with AI instead of real humans is pretty dystopian on its own, even if we ignore all the ways this can be abused by bad actors