A MIT-OpenAI study of nearly 40 million chats found the heaviest ChatGPT users reported more loneliness, dependence, and less time with real people, though researchers warn the link is correlation, not cause
We are writers and editors, not clinicians, psychologists, or therapists. What follows is our reading of a pair of recent studies, not advice about your own screen habits or wellbeing. The research described here is observational and correlational, and population-level patterns a…