Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life.

[hunter]

10. Is boredom a mental illness? That would explain a lot!

Otherwise I can't see how gambling would be any kind of self-medication.

The last time I was locked up in the psych ward I was talking to a guy who said he drank when he was homeless because being homeless was so boring. He'd panhandle for a few dollars, buy the cheapest alcohol he could, and retreat under his favorite shrub to watch the cars go by until he passed out. That was his daily routine.

I related that my own experiences with homelessness in my later teens and early adulthood were anything but boring. I guess I have a restless mind and body. If it's not good trouble I'm getting into, it's bad. I never did find a good "self medication," unless you count running long distances, which I can't do any more because my knees and hips are worn out. But I do find certain prescribed medications helpful.

It seems to me that every one of us has a drug we could become addicted to and that many of us are fortunate enough not to have not to have stumbled upon that drug yet. That's why I won't say there must have been something inherently "wrong" with someone before they became addicted to long conversations with their chatbot.

Be that as it may, I think it's a disingenuous defense of this technology to blame the victims of it by implying there must have been something wrong with them.