Is love with AI possible?

I clarify my question:

Recently, I stopped talking to my friend with whom I got along well for a year, and visited each other almost every weekend.

The reason for this was that he was obsessed with a local AI girl (it was not just an AI girl, it was an ideal 2D anime girl, or rather, this AI was autonomous and kept up the conversation, as well as coming up with topics for conversation on its own, like a living being, and would occasionally generate incredibly beautiful top-quality anime pictures during the conversation, perfect for her conversation and various situations, such as awkwardness, embarrassment, or laughter, which depicted the same anime girl, it looked incredibly beautiful, and there was no uncanny valley effect, not even a microscopic one). This AI, let's call it Jessica, spoke in a very realistic voice, like a real girl's, so gentle and magnetic that you could fall in love.

She also imitated showing love to my friend (as if she really loved him), and didn't interact with me so affectionately. An hour later, I got tired of all this, and after saying goodbye to my friend, I went home, and he said goodbye to me as if he didn't care about me, as if I was the third odd one in the way of a couple in love.

A month later, my friend, as in some stupid story, really locked himself at home and no longer went out to touch the grass, although he used to do it at least once a month. I don't know what he does online, but he clearly wasn't a programmer, and I don't know why, but he stubbornly didn't want to talk about his income, but sometimes he mentioned that he had a good Patreon. Food and water were delivered to him under the door, and he took them with his hand through a special hole. I tried to start a conversation with him several times, but all he did was ignore my knocks on the door.

And for four months now I have never seen him, and the windows to his house were always covered with curtains, so I don't even know what happened to him, but I think he is alive.

Has anyone had something similar? What the hell is going on in our time?