loneliness – Scotts 2 Cents https://scotts2cents.com Because sometimes things just need to be said.... Sun, 23 Aug 2026 20:05:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://scotts2cents.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-5B3591FB-539B-4A48-B259-9096E587578A-32x32.jpeg loneliness – Scotts 2 Cents https://scotts2cents.com 32 32 Your AI “Friend” Isn’t Making You Less Lonely. It’s Making You More. https://scotts2cents.com/your-ai-friend-isnt-making-you-less-lonely-its-making-you-more/ https://scotts2cents.com/your-ai-friend-isnt-making-you-less-lonely-its-making-you-more/#respond Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:14:18 +0000 https://scotts2cents.com/2026/08/16/your-ai-friend-isnt-making-you-less-lonely-its-making-you-more/ Stanford researchers just spent months studying how people actually talk to AI chatbots, and the takeaway is blunt: the lonelier you already are, the worse an AI companion tends to make you feel. Not better. Worse. Researchers in Stanford’s Diyi Yang lab surveyed more than a thousand people who use Character.AI and dug through 244 ...

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