alt Hacker News> It's not necessarily addictive though because you can stop talking with the chatbot at any time.
You can also stop taking drugs at any time. Or stop drinking. Or stop smoking. Or stop doomscrolling.
> It's not necessarily addictive though because you can stop talking with the chatbot at any time.
You can also stop taking drugs at any time. Or stop drinking. Or stop smoking. Or stop doomscrolling.
What I meant to say was, the standard for when we call something addictive is more hazy than that. In general, text based interfaces don't light up the brain in the same way. Psychologically it's a lot easier to walk away from a chatbot vs an infinite feed of short form video... potentially that difference could help find some kind of standard to determine addictiveness
Edit: I wonder if a hypothetical digital experience like the samizdat out of infinite jest is possible? I.e. a digital experience which hits the brain in the perfect way to produce addiction without a chemical basis