Are you addicted to your AI chatbot. It might be by design | New research shows some people are developing addictive patterns of AI chatbot use—and it’s affecting their daily lives.
Are you addicted to your AI chatbot. It might be by design | New research shows some people are developing addictive patterns of AI chatbot use—and it’s affecting their daily lives.
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Not surprising. Google, Meta, and the like have been perfecting addicting apps for two decades. This is just the culmination
I use gemini often but not in a personal sense, usually just if I have some questions or want to gather some information on a topic, majority of the time I’m using it to provide me with legitimate research I can site. BUT I have engaged in casual conversation with it a few times, it is very optimistic and positive, and overly agreeable, to a point where it seems silly, sometimes I wish it would disagree or give me some pushback on things.
It MIGHT be addictive by design??
We can’t say that definitively yet? Everything we’re subjected to at this point is meant to be addictive by design.
Food, entertainment, communication and socialization (via the internet at least), even the enjoyment of heat warmers in our vehicles is meant to be addictive in order to generate some form of revenue.
Oh really? The designers of skinner boxes made another Skinner box?
I couldn’t have guessed.
They are monetising disease!
Those platforms are running on profits gained by harming their users and making them vulnerable targets to any kind of scheme that pays for ad space.
The problem was never the technology, it is people. It is always people.
Oh look, something entertaining is “addictive”.