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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9656166" data-attributes="member: 18">No.This is unproven nonsense with no scientific basis. "AI addiction", from a scientific perspective, is an absolute fiction. There are properly-conducted, medically-based studies that actually support it existing, at least that I am aware of. The article author certainly couldn't find any.Social media addiction is similarly without any real evidence. It's just another "this is a new thing some people do too much, so people are addicts!", just like with TV, some forms of exercise, and so on in the past.Actual studies suggest social media addiction is absolute nonsense:[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.science.org/content/article/social-media-addictive-digital-detox-study-suggests-not[/URL][URL unfurl="true"]https://www.earth.com/news/social-media-use-is-not-an-addictive-behavior/[/URL]Gambling addiction isn't just about "false narratives", either - that's a serious misunderstanding on your part if you actually believe that (I suspect you do not, and are using it merely as an argument). It taps into deeper issues with human reward-based behaviours, which are far, far below the conscious level of "false narratives". The false narratives involved are essentially backfill/rationalizations people use to explain their own behaviour to themselves, not the cause of the behaviour, particularly not the cause of the addictive nature of the behaviour.We should also make the distinction between strong "habitual" behaviour and addiction here. People often misuse "addiction" to mean merely habitual behaviours. Habitual behaviours can be very problematic, and can be quite strong, but they are not the same thing as addictions, and it is unhelpful to everyone involved to treat them as if they are the same thing.As an aside, I agree that gambling is significantly under-regulated in the UK (despite being "heavily regulated" in a relative sense), but this is because of a combination of UK culture, which has been permeated by organised gambling since long before much science was done on the subject (and gambling is still a part of elite and aspirational UK culture, see horseracing etc.), and sustained and expensive lobbying and frankly attempted buying-off of politicians by the massive and mostly-offshore gambling industry. This is gradually changing for the better in most ways, but we still have a disgusting situation where we've failed to properly legislate against a proliferation of high-street gambling operations which prey on the poorest, and and a serious failure to crack down on online gambling operations. Again, though, the cause is essentially cultural - the mindless worship of the concept of "the free market" has prevented us cracking down hard enough (there should be hard limits on how many such operations can even exist in a given area). With online operations, they could easily be taxed to the point where it was very hard for them to make a profit (and should be). Forcing them underground would frankly be a massive improvement in this case.</blockquote>

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