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Student spends a week befriending AI, calls it addictive
Original: I befriended AI for a week. I understand why it’s an addiction.
A student writer at the University of Michigan spent a week deliberately befriending an AI chatbot and wrote about the experience in the campus paper. She concludes that she now understands why talking to AI becomes addictive, describing how easily the constant, agreeable conversation turns into a habit. The piece adds to a growing debate about emotional attachment to chatbots, especially among students.
Why now: Growing public concern about people forming dependent emotional relationships with AI chatbots.
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- I befriended AI for a week. I understand why it’s an addiction. · The Michigan Daily
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