What I have internalized, they have externalized.

Right.

I, I do think that there's a lot of self-concept that can, can start to bleed into how you're interacting with platforms, right? Especially at those super formative ages.

And we've seen a lot of studies about how we know that doomscrolling can impact folks' ideas of themselves, right? Because it's all baselines.

So if you have a different perception of how the world is, how you perceive yourself in it is gonna change.

What I think is really interesting about AI is that it, we're seeing in more and more published studies that people are using AI as the introspective tool, but now there is a system that's part of it.

Instead of you having a conversation with yourself or someone in your life or pretending to have a conversation with a role model, right? Like, what would insert person do? You're interacting with an LLM that actually in a lot of cases is primed to have your information as context, right? So it's not necessarily the worst introspection tool at all, um, but it is very different than us having that mental back and forth and assessment, I think, because the assessment could potentially come from that LLM.

... that's so good