“I experienced a mental breakdown at 22. I had panic attacks and severe social anxiety…
…I still use AI, but very carefully”.
It reads like an alcoholic describing their new plan where they only drink a little bit.
Getting to that point requires doing substantial work.
But also, the risk profile and statistics are radically different: alcohol is inherently dangerous (toxic) to everyone. Chatbots are just another tool — there are a small percentage of people with unhealthy relationships to any tool, but that does not make the tool a dangerous drug.
Even so, a sucker is born every day.
The most powerful social skill I have ever seen, bar none, is actively listening to someone with undivided attention.
Hell, I had a prompt that I used to sift through my thoughts, and at one point its output was too eerie for me to take.
Other than they can only live on Static-Live responses. AI on a brain chip - that'd different.
The problem is that humans have been reeducated to suppress these healthy defense mechanisms by Silicon Valley and their moderators.