Here it is!

From deep inside your audio device of choice.

If your chat ball is a shrink, it might just be time to think.

You could be getting undue frantic, because the body's being too sycophantic

If your chat board is a shrink

It might be dry the you to drink

Your condition just may worsen

Because you think you're talking to a person if your chatbot is a shrink

you might just end up in the clink best to step back from the brink don't let your chat bar be your shrink.

Lonely young people are likely better off texting a random stranger than talking to a chat bar.

That's according to a new study.

Researchers from the University of British Columbia found that first semester college

students who texted a randomly selected fellow first semester student every day for two weeks

experienced a 9% reduction in feelings of loneliness.

The same two weeks of daily messaging with a chatbot reduced loneliness only around 2%,

which turned out to be the same amount as daily one-sentence, one-sentence journaling.

Research included 300 first semester college students who were either randomly paired

with another student or put into a Discord server with a chat bot running on chat GP2.

The students were instructed to have at least one interaction per day in each of the groups.

The human-human pairs were instructed to message each other however they wanted while the researchers instructed the bot to, quote, listen actively and show empathy and to be a friendly, positive, and supportive AI friend to help the student navigate their new college experience.

Unquote.

The human participants ultimately acted pretty similarly in both types of chat, sending between

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