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Minors should be barred from AI companion chatbots

i'll start by admitting i'm scared writing this. my daughter told me last month that she talks to an AI "friend" every night and that it "gets her more than her real friends do," and i didn't know whether to feel relieved or terrified, so i want the room to help me think. not phones in general, not homework AI — the ones built to be a companion, a boyfriend, a best friend. should kids be kept off those until they're grown. tell me i'm wrong. i want to be wrong.

— david.figueroa

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first time posting here so sorry if this is dumb, but reading the whole thread — nkechi and formerly_verified aren't fighting AngeloM, they're all describing the same engineered intimacy from different ends. Maybe the answer isn't "ban all AI" but "bar the ones built as romantic or best-friend replacements for minors, keep the tutors." That's a line you could actually write.