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The AI Chatbots That Tech Companies Are Aggressively Pushing to Billions of Users Appear to Be Causing Serious Psychological Harms, New Research Finds (futurism.com)
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[–] addie@feddit.uk 5 points 3 days ago

It's correct if they're talking about multiple different kinds of psychological harm - depression and psychosis, say. Much like if I go and buy both full-fat and semi-skimmed, then I'm buying milks; or if I'm checking the hardness of river and tap samples, then I'm testing waters.