"sycosocial": relationships with AI that lives in the uncanny valley of friendship.

An eager servant who feeds you emotional junk food, knows your deepest secrets, and subtly optimizes for a multinational corporation's engagement metrics.^[gh]

"Parasocial" captured something important about modern media relationships.

But AI creates something new: interactive relationships that feel personal but are fundamentally one way and sycophantic.

We need a new word.