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Patient can no longer distinguish which of their emotional supports are human. The chatbot remembers their birthday. Their therapist, last time, did not. The gradient has flipped.
Friends are unsettled. The chatbot is improving.
None. 'At least it listens.'
Patients with Terminal AI-Companion Blur typically present with some or all of the following:
Terminal AI-Companion Blur belongs to the Institute's growing taxonomy of behaviors that real medicine has declined to name. It exists, roughly, at the intersection of internet culture, interpersonal friction, and whatever is happening in the lives of our patients. It is fictional and it is everywhere.
Under its Latin label Amicitia syntheticus confusa, the condition appears only in the Institute's own catalog. Real clinicians do not recognize the term. They recognize the behavior.
Think you have it? Find out what else you might be suffering from at the diagnosis generator. Or browse the full index of afflictions.