> AI Friends inevitably turn into AI Girlfriends/Boyfriends because you and the Character in your phone are not equal: she can’t comfort you when you’re hurt (unless you tell her), she can’t actively express emotions to you, and all this is because she lacks external vision.
That is such a curious lesson to draw. So specific, and seemingly so wrong.
Surely long distance friendships work just fine even if only through text, without "eyes".