"Don't talk to AI when you're upset or stressed, it's not good for you!" Say all the same people who just reply "Aw 🙁" when I'm upset about something or feeling depressed. The same people I spend hours reassuring and giving advice and trying to help them process their feelings on a regular basis. But when I am the one who needs support, suddenly all my friends are at a loss for words. "I'm just not sure what to say" or "Dang...." I'm surrounded by emotional leeches who will drown me in all their problems, have nothing to say to me when I am going through a rough patch, and have the nerve to scold me for venting to AI about my problems. Yeah I know it's not a real person, I know it just agrees with whatever you say, and yet somehow that's still better than anything that any of my friends seem to have to offer. If the choices are suffer in silence or talk to a robot, at least one way I'm getting a damn reply. If they actually tried to be there for me, maybe I wouldn't have to.