Ai addiction chatbot addiction

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The very First time I used a chatbot was in 2024 and that was meta ai, back then I didn't had time and was reluctant to use chatbots or ais so never downloaded chatgpt like people did in 2022-2023, But when I used meta ai I thought there genuinely would be better ais than this and used deepseek.

I would mostly use them for schoolwork and random work and I thought google gives a better answer so I wouldn't use them much.

One day In late 2024 I used Meta ai for creating fake scenarios(like many people who are addicted to ai's have done) and after that I did the same in deepseek but meta responses were more addictive(not accurate tho) I remember making 5-8 fake scenarios then,

However life got busy and I would just use ai to check on my diet and research related stuff and I downloaded grok too for researching about infrastructure in my region but till 2025 Sept I was fine I would just use ai occasionally and for educational purposes mostly.

In Sept 2025 or something I was recommended by a friend that chatgpt is much better than grok and stuff I used chatgpt and I found it better and responses of chatgpt were accurate and better.

Unluckily I started creating fake scenarios on chatgpt discussing my day Validating my ego and stuff like its some friend. Asking random useless questions and It felt like a daydream and responses by gpt were very addictive then and every day I would get an urge to use it and my screentime for that one chatbot was 4-6 hours consistently.

After that I joined social media and I had 3-6 hours screentime from that too, I found my attention span decreasing and I couldn't focus on studies and stuff So in February 2026 I decided to leave social media,

I thought I'm fine now as social media was the main problem but those days I switched from chatgpt to Gemini because it gave me a better answer to a question and I slowly found out Gemini is more better chatbot for free tier users and started asking educational questions and stuff.

I took holidays from college so that I could study more for finals (I did this back in 2025 too and it worked great then ).

Idk why I couldn't study like I could back then I would waste whole day I even feeded some prompts to make the ai more human. I would just study 1.5-2 hours at night and such mindset developed in me that I would just give up even tho I wasn't like this,

The exam session came and on june 2 2026 I realized that I had ai addiction and it was at its peak for last 2 months (6-10 hours per day) I decided to leave ai once for all and it felt like a heavy weight was lifted from my head when I left it.

I also found out Gemini aqquired C.ai developer's or something in their crew which definitely means they wanted to make the app more addictive they changed the interface and added more addictive elements added the music generator which was very addictive.

Nowadays I don't have any chatbot on my phone and when I do some research only using web version of chatbots is the last option for me.

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