We like to believe that technology serves us. But in the age of AI companions, the truth may be more complicated. Lately, I’ve realized that most of our attention goes to what chatbots do to us—what they reveal about the technology and the companies behind it. Far less often do we ask the harder question: What do they reveal about us, and the desires of the people prompting them?
Every time we open a chatbot or design an AI companion, we enter a relationship—one that looks intimate on the surface, but is deeply tyrannical underneath.
Unlike a friendship or partnership, where both sides negotiate space, a human–bot relationship is built entirely on control.
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