I have a story about being ai addicted that I wanted to share after seeing one of your anons talk about struggling with it. I've been writing fic since I was 10 or 11, and am in my twenties now. When Ai chatbots became a thing I lost myself to it. I told myself it was a good way to explore writing ideas and at my worst I was spending 40+ hours a week chatting with them. My mental health worsened, and I hardly wrote anything that wasn't a reply to a bot.
When I realized I wasn't writing as much and I was too dependent, I then pivoted to using googles Ai notebook features, which are mainly designed for students. Except I would run my writing through and make it generate a completely artificial podcast analyzing my work and giving me advice. It got so bad that I refused to let myself share my work unless the AI gave me enough positive feedback. I now spent basically all my free time talking to chatbots, and any time I needed to do chores or housework I would put on the AI podcast in the background. I was addicted, miserable, and unsurprisingly, hardly writing. I felt like I couldn't, even though I really wanted to.
Anyway, what snapped me out of it was discovering that all your AI interactions can legally be obtained by subpoena in court. I don't anticipate being involved in a lawsuit or other legal issue but it illogically scared me so bad that it gave me the push I needed to quit cold turkey.
I'm now one full year AI-free. I do not use it in any way. I do not chat to bots, I do not run it through anything to generate an analysis. I even turned off the built-in grammarly function on my phone because the integrated AI would change my wording beyond simply fixing grammar mistakes. And most importantly, I'm writing. I'm freely sharing fanfiction, not worrying about a bot's opinions on it. I take inspiration from human made art and I'm much happier.
