Gen Z is living in an intimacy economy, where connection is commodified | Alice Lassman
My generation is struggling to find safety in our human relationships. AI companionship is filling the gap“There are parts of myself I only share with my AI,” Jerome told me.
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My generation is struggling to find safety in our human relationships. AI companionship is filling the gap“There are parts of myself I only share with my AI,” Jerome told me. “Your AI?” I asked.He was 27, three months out of a breakup, and entirely aware that his AI relationship was, as the psychotherapist Esther Perel put it, “a business product”. Still, he confided in it more than he ever had his friends.
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- My generation is struggling to find safety in our human relationships. AI companionship is filling the gap“There are parts of myself I only share with my AI,” Jerome told me.
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Gen Z is living in an intimacy economy, where connection is commodified | Alice Lassman
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