Family therapists and divorce lawyers see cases where communication with chatbots complicates the relationship between the spouses. People use artificial intelligence to seek support, confirm that they are right in arguments, or replace human intimacy. Bloomberg writes about this in reference to experts and participants in such relationships.
The use of AI does not always harm relationships, the publication notes. Software engineer Khalid Tabuhid and his current girlfriend turned to Claude when they were trying to move from friendship to romance. They both showed the bot messages before sending them to each other. According to Tabohid, this helped remove the defensiveness, aggression and resentment from the language and focus on the problem itself.