Shelly Palmer - AI Addiction Is Real. So Are the Therapies

Shelly Palmer - AI addiction is real. So are the therapies

Are chatbots making us smarter, stupider, better, worse?

Inside ‘AI Addiction’ Support Groups, Where People Try to Stop Talking to Chatbots

Nathan’s friends were worried about him. He’d been acting differently lately. Not just quieter in his high school classes, but the normally chatty teen was withdrawn in general. Was he sick, they wondered?He just didn’t get a good night’s sleep, he’d tell them.That was partially true. But the cause for his restless nights was that Nathan had been staying up, compulsively talking to chatbots on Character.AI. They discussed everything — philosophi…