Lonely? Chat with Sofia, your AI companion… This is becoming the new normal these days, AI friends, AI chat partners, AI astrologers, AI therapists, and whatnot!

I personally talk to ChatGPT more than I talk to my real friends (not like I don't have any)! They claim that this might save you from depression, but this might be the reason you're in depression in the first place. The unrealistic standards that have been set by AI are crazyyy. It remembers your favourite snack, always agrees with you, never argues, makes sense why I talk to AI more…nvm!

Now, imagine this gets upgraded. Not just a chat or two, not just texts, but you get to see them in 3D, hear their voices, laugh with them, basically love, redefined, where you've the control to design your partner..

With the advancement of technologies, you stopped meeting people; rather, you design them!

You come back home after a busy day at work, put on your VR headsets and boom, that's your favourite person then and there! Waiting just for you, and you vent your heart out, they LISTEN, you share your feelings, they UNDERSTAND and VALIDATE them! Damn, I'm impressed with just the thought of it!

And for some reason, all this doesn't even sound bizarre. We've already come so far with tech. Built an AI that listens better, talks better, why not build something that loves better too?

They'll love you, listen to you, remember your allergies, no worry about getting cheated on, just worry about buying new cloud storage.

It'll all start as a product. "Emotional companionship with immersive intelligence" with a campaign line: "Tired of emotional unavailability? Try our VR companion and fall in love". But give it some time, and people will actually start getting attached to these products. Some tech savvies will design a partner so apt that people will pay to rent the template.

People will stop talking to real people, slowly blurring the line between tech and reality. At some point, they'll forget what warmth really is, is it a hug from a loved one or a perfectly coded response of their VR companion.

And when the illusion gets so vivid, who's to say who's real and who's fake?

We might read headlines of people identifying themselves as fully functional JavaScript code. Because they've spent so much time with codes that their minds start buffering, they don't even know who they really are, or maybe they're coded as well.