# Last Month I Had My First Intimate Experience With AI ![rw-book-cover](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1200,h_600,c_fill,f_jpg,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faea51447-c8ee-45eb-93c0-95707efc5fb5_1257x947.jpeg) ## Metadata - Author: [[Jesse Singal]] - Full Title: Last Month I Had My First Intimate Experience With AI - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: The author reflects on feeling lost and alone during his adolescence but finds it easier to explore these feelings through writing. He shares a unique experience using an AI to discuss his personal struggles, which felt cathartic and insightful. While he acknowledges the potential risks of relying on AI for emotional support, he finds value in the experience and encourages others to explore it cautiously. - URL: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/last-month-i-had-my-first-intimate - Source File: web-only ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > It’s not that this strange ritual *fixed* me, or anything like that. But it was a genuinely novel and remarkable experience. It was just plain *cathartic* to hear two fake people talk about problems I hadn’t discussed with a lot of real people — especially not with this much specificity and honesty. They — the fake voices generated by a large language model — were touched by what I had written, and could really identify with it, and hearing them talk about it in this manner lightened the load a little. I teared up. It felt like it *helped*. It was more or less the same feeling you get after a particularly meaningful session with a talented therapist. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jrtzh4nccy3bgwfn6afyz1ak)) > The most obvious argument a critic could make here is that as this technology improves, it will be deployed widely as a *replacement* for more meaningful human interaction. I’m of two minds about this. On the one hand, there are obvious ethical problems with letting AI take on the role of a full-blown therapist — not least the fact that if it does something that upsets you, who are you supposed to take it up with? I’m going to email Google and tell the billion-dollar company that a feature I chose of my own volition to experiment with upset me? That’s not going to fly. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jrtzjyxw9w7rjb4rp0abrx96))