“Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot”
https://futurism.com/the-byte/chatgpt-dependence-addiction
> Researchers have found that ChatGPT "power users," or those who use it the most and at the longest durations, are becoming dependent upon — or even addicted to — the chatbot.
Possibly related: what I wrote a couple of years ago on how LLM chatbots function like a mentalist's con
https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/
Baldur Bjarnason
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