Yes, and the effect is huge. It's harder to measure, but I expect the influence bleeds over from personal use into maladaptive behavior toward other people. From simply being lower-quality friends to stalking and intimate partner violence.
Maggie Harrison DupréAnd here's our Feb story, which draws on 10+ individual cases we identified in which ChatGPT or another bot reinforced a user's delusional fixations on another person, leading to domestic abuse, harassment, and stalking: futurism.com/artificial-i...