Hello there,
I opened Claude and started typing out the first thing that came to mind, then I realized why we are addicted to those chatbots and what could make them potentially unhealthy?
I am just like any of you, I was introduced to Chatgpt at around late 2022 and it felt like the future, from then on I started using it more and more.
I never felt that it is any "bad" for me like a shortcut, it searches faster and does my homework for me, but slowly i became addicted to it, asking it anything I think of, even to the point that I tell it anything private just like drinking water, it did not feel "wrong" and that was my mistake.
First of all which most users did not know including me, that companies like OpenAI may be using the data in conversations to train their models depending on your settings, and it is not even private, it is just sitting in their policies.
Secondly, conversations can be reviewed by OpenAI team if the model suspected any kind of abuse happening, which is good except that it could happen on completely normal conversations, and it is also just sitting in the policies unread, so you are not just risking the risk of AI training with what you tell it, you are also risking a real human seeing your messages, which you may accept but most of us would not.
Even with that people still use them daily actually more for some people, that is all because of addiction to having someone to talk, most people does not have friends due to using too much social media, so they instead friend their chatbots.
To be honest me included I use it non stop for the past 4 years. A solution that I am trying to use is to try actually googling stuff, and speaking with actual human beings, and yes AI is powerful but its not for EVERYTHING use it only in when you are in need.
Thanks to all of you for reading, I talked about similar topic about "How is vibe coding like an addiction" in here!
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