am I just supposed to become even WEIRDER than I am, let all that kinky energy turn toxic and then rapey

No.

type for 20 minutes a day about butt sex with an LLM

You do you, but if it’s reinforcing isolation, also maybe no? I sure hope they aren’t mutually exclusive though.

All very troublesome numbers, but the headline doesn’t come back in the article and seems quite overstated. If boys mostly know 100 people their age and they all know that same person in an AI relationship. It’s really 0.2% of the agegroup that are in a relationship with AI. Not good, but vastly smaller that the other figures, like creating naked depictions of other people.