The only two groups I see using these things beyond a short term novelty is Students cheating on their course work, and people building sexual/romantic stories with them.
Even if they make up a fractional amount of the total users, they are also the ones using them an absurd amount and thereby feeding it more data than probably thousands of others combined. One of the news articles about this from a few months ago had a guy bemoaning the loss of 100k's of messages lost in an update. One guy did that, and fed it that much data.
Why would I want to form a relationship
The people doing this are not in a healthy state and you'd not even know of their existence if this particular thing wasn't the big "fad" leading to it being talked about in the media and legislation. These relationships are probably the only dopamine hit they've had in forever, and the illusion is better than their sad, lonely lives.
The only two groups I see using these things beyond a short term novelty is Students cheating on their course work, and people building sexual/romantic stories with them.
Even if they make up a fractional amount of the total users, they are also the ones using them an absurd amount and thereby feeding it more data than probably thousands of others combined. One of the news articles about this from a few months ago had a guy bemoaning the loss of 100k's of messages lost in an update. One guy did that, and fed it that much data.
The people doing this are not in a healthy state and you'd not even know of their existence if this particular thing wasn't the big "fad" leading to it being talked about in the media and legislation. These relationships are probably the only dopamine hit they've had in forever, and the illusion is better than their sad, lonely lives.