 where people were making this argument. They were saying, you know, I've been awkward my whole life, or I have a lot of social anxiety, and talking with my AI friends made me more confident to then go out and talk to my real friends. But I think the dystopian or pessimistic case is real, too. We don't want a world, or at least I don't want a world, where people are spending so much time talking to their AI friends that they're not actually leaving their house or going out and making real connections.