Young adults are using ChatGPT to script their in-person conversations. Psychologists call it an “epidemic of self-mistrust.”

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Young adults are using AI chatbots to draft dating lines, party icebreakers, and real-time in-person responses. Psychologists warn it creates “self-mistrust.” A relationship coach suggests capping AI rehearsal to once a week.

A growing number of young adults are using AI chatbots to script not just their texts but their in-person conversations, the Wall Street Journal reported. Niharika Abbaraju, a 20-year-old cancer researcher, uses ChatGPT at work for research, but off the clock it becomes her conversation coach, drafting dating app lines, party icebreakers, and real-time responses to whoever is standing next to her. When a conversation drifts toward a book she has not read, she pulls up an AI summary to fake her way through it.

She is not alone. The pattern extends across a generation of young adults who let chatbots steer their dating messages and social interactions, particularly those with social anxiety. The results are sometimes...

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