‘Chat was my backbone’: The people using AI for awkward conversations

From friendship dilemmas to sticky work situations, young people are turning to AI for help navigating life’s messiest interactions

‘Chat was my backbone’: The people using AI for awkward conversations
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Last autumn, 23-year-old Juan Cassanova was going through one of life’s most dreaded partings: a friendship breakup. The Brooklyn-based photographer knew his friend was hiding things from him, but didn’t know how to express how he felt. The fact that it was a long-distance friendship, with Casanova’s friend living in Florida, only compounded their issues and made the erosion of the relationship even trickier to navigate. So he turned to AI for advice. “I’m a recovering people-pleaser,hellip;

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