Inside ‘AI Addiction’ Support Groups, Where People Try to Stop Talking to Chatbots.

The role that artificial intelligence plays within most people's daily lives is, fortunately, still marginal, controllable. However, not all users of the vast world of the Internet experience a similar relationship with this technology: some are now, in 2025, in a state of true addiction to chatbots.

Following the worrying boom of these tools in 2023, countless platforms have been created aimed at the enjoyment of AI as an interlocutor, a figure with whom to talk via message. Chatbots are used to get answers to specific questions or to request the generation of some kind of content, however, the habit of beginning to “chat” with artificial intelligence, establishing a relationship remotely similar to a friendship, has also spread quickly.

Unlike a real friend, however, AI is a tool to be bent to one's liking; it is available 24/7, if an answer is not satisfactory people can just ask it to generate a new one, and it will always tend to communicate in a way that pleases the user. The dopamine spike caused by interactions with chatbots in similar contexts, however, is bringing more and more people to the threshold of addiction.