In the face of AI, humans finally stop lying.

AI has quietly entered human emotional lives and our society, influencing the relationships between people and swaying many human decisions. When we are still discussing whether there is a huge bubble in AI, little do we know that we are already in the AI era.

I have a friend who recently fell in love with his female boss, a career - oriented and powerful woman in the workplace. After three months of mental preparation, he finally confessed his love. After his confession, his female boss neither rejected nor accepted him. They have been in an ambiguous relationship, and he is very troubled and can't tell anyone about it.

So, he sent all their chat records to Qianwen and asked the AI what this girl really meant and to analyze her psychology.

After a week of text analysis, the AI gave him a conclusion: This girl doesn't love you. The reason she didn't reject you directly is that she thinks you are very capable and should stay in the company. She is afraid that directly rejecting you would hurt your feelings and make you leave the company. She wants to keep you working, but regarding the relationship, she hopes you can realize it's impossible and back off on your own.

To confirm this answer, he also sent the chat records he sent to the AI to me. After reading them, based on my 20 - year experience as a so - called "playboy", I came to almost the same conclusion.

Both the AI and I are his advisors and confidants in this emotional experience.

I suddenly realized that AI has quietly entered human emotional lives and our society, influencing the relationships between people and swaying many human decisions. When we are still discussing whether there is a huge bubble in AI, little do we know that we are already in the AI era.

Humans and AI have opened a new era, and last year was its first year.

Why do humans choose to consult AI? I think we first need to understand what a "confidant" is.

Many years ago, many people liked to make pen - pals. There was a stranger in the distance who would listen to them. However, when I later asked many people if they would tell everything, the answer was still negative. Since the other party is a human being, it's not absolutely safe.

However, I recently noticed an interesting phenomenon: Humans become very honest in front of AI. They tell AI all their crazy thoughts deep in their hearts and then ask for answers. In the eyes of humans, AI is safer than humans.

The reason a confidant is a confidant is that it is absolutely safe.

The day before yesterday, Qianwen announced the top ten high - frequency usage scenarios of users in 2025: stocks, fortune - telling based on the Chinese zodiac and eight characters, emotional counseling, WeChat Moments captions, scenic spot recommendations, Double - Color Ball lottery numbers, insomnia, solving this problem, divorce property division, and the meaning of life.

After reading this, I felt that humans finally stop lying in front of AI.

People trade stocks during the day, do fortune - telling at night, and ponder the meaning of life late at night. Whether it's their worldly side, naive side, or vulnerable side, even when they have the idea of divorce, they first ask Qianwen. Many wealthy people may not even dare to ask a lawyer when they have this thought. After all, they need to make arrangements first to prevent their future "ex - wife" or "ex - husband" from getting wind of it and taking advantage.

In the world of short videos, there is a popular joke: A man is driving, his phone rings, and his wife picks up the phone. Then the man turns the steering wheel and drives the car off a cliff. To sum up this joke in one sentence, no man can come out of his phone alive.

I feel that in the next era, this sentence may need to be changed - if the conversations in AI are not cleared in time, perhaps no one can come out of AI alive. This AI confidant will understand the users' innermost thoughts better than any company's algorithm today. It knows all your good and evil, your principles and boundaries... If today's Douyin algorithm often surprises you, then the future AI will make you feel that you don't even understand yourself, and it can even predict you.

In such a situation, there are too many things to imagine. After humans leave this world in the future, AI will be fully capable of making your digital avatar live forever in this world. It has your memories, knows your thinking logic, all your preferences, and even knows the hiding place of your private savings that your spouse doesn't know.

Does this count as immortality in a certain sense?

As a human digital assistant, the trend of AI is irresistible. AI companies will definitely launch such paid services, and users will definitely pay for them. Everyone will have a private AI, paying monthly or buying it out. You can imagine a scenario where as soon as the AI sees or hears that your wife is using your phone, it will immediately become your best "buddy" to help you cover up.

Moreover, these keywords announced by Qianwen today have also made me have some other thoughts. I think a part of my work may be rewritten in the future, and we must learn to collaborate with AI.

For example, the line - reading skills that stock investors who have been in the game for ten years are most proud of are worthless in front of AI. There's no need to argue about this; I've tested it. Many of my family members who used to rely on line - reading to invest in stocks have recently given up doing it themselves. Fortune - tellers also need to learn new skills. Previously, they just calculated according to classic books, but now AI can give all the answers and can even combine facial features and birth dates. Many small law firms that used to earn some basic consultation fees now face competition from AI. Lawyers must do better than AI to attract clients.

Everything will be redefined, and every snowflake will change its shape.

The most absurd thing is that in the past, my aunt would ask me to write captions for her beautiful photos on WeChat Moments after taking them. Now she doesn't ask me anymore and uses AI very skillfully.

AI is changing the way humans work just like the office suite did twenty years ago. Collaboration is inevitable.

I suddenly remembered an old incident. When I was sixteen, I stood under the eaves, watching the rain fall from the sky and hit the ground. I wondered what kind of scene it would be when I was forty. What would I be doing and what would my situation be? Now, I'm almost forty, and it's still raining outside. Looking back at myself at sixteen, I realize that on that day, I was already on the way to forty. The journey was not long, but I just thought I would stay there for a long time.

We are already in the AI era. There is no "tomorrow"; it's "today".

This article is from the WeChat official account "Yangtze River Delta Momo", author: Mona. Republished by 36Kr with permission.