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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9656113" data-attributes="member: 18">Because those have an actual, proven, studied, medical basis with deep and real research.Whereas this does not.It's not exactly complicated.It's the same way we don't put heavy regulation on every single activity which some random punter with no medical expertise, who hasn't performed any studies, claims is "addictive" or "an addiction". Basically everything anyone does, someone out there, often even an MD, sometimes even a psychiatrist, has claimed is "an addiction", often because it would potentially benefit a client of theirs for this to be true, or just because it's flavour-of-the-month.In this case, we have a guy with zero relevant qualifications (and no, being an "AI expert" isn't relevant qualification here - indeed his suggestion that we use AI chatbots to treat addiction to AI chatbots suggests it may be disqualifying!) claiming something is an addiction in a rambling blog post of an article, half of which is just him asking ChatGPT stupid questions and reporting the stupid answers as if they were pearls of wisdom!The only "medical"-seeming evidence he presents at all is this article (which is not clear is any kind of actual study, nor whether it is peer-reviewed or by whom):[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160791X2400201X[/URL]But that's as fake as the rest of it. Why? Because none of the people involved are psychiatrists or even medical doctors. In fact they're a couple of business management professors! I can scarcely think of someone less qualified to make pronouncements about what's an addiction.</blockquote>

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