I grew up well-off, so of course all my friends were imaginary. I’d interact with them by phone, like everybody else, but my parents had paid for mine to be safer than people, kinder and more human. So you can imagine I wouldn’t have been a good panel member in a Turing Test reality show. The main side effect was I guess bafflement. People would surprise me being inconsistent, having bad timing, or forgetting things, like really buggy soft. I would always go back to social programs, but my parents’ therapist AI made them block them just enough that I would have to seek out people.
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