Technology

Long story short, people that use it get really used to using it.

Same type of addiction of people who think the Kardashians care about them or schedule their whole lives around going to Disneyland a few times a year.

Correlation does not equal causation.

You have to be a little off to WANT to interact with ChatGPT that much in the first place.

I tried that Replika app before AI was trendy and immediately picked on the fact that AI companion thing is literal garbage.

I may not like how my friends act but I still respect them as people so there is no way I'll fall this low and desperate.

Maybe about time we listen to that internet wisdom about touching some grass!

I need to read Amusing Ourselves to Death....

Not a lot of meat on this article, but yeah, I think it's pretty obvious that those who seek automated tools to define their own thoughts and feelings become dependent. If one is so incapable of mapping out ones thoughts and putting them to written word, its natural they'd seek ease and comfort with the "good enough" (fucking shitty as hell) output of a bot.

Negative IQ points?

Neat snaps camera

New DSM / ICD is dropping with AI dependency. But it's unreadable because image generation was used for the text.