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AI chatbots upended their lives. They found support from each other

People using AI chatbots are experiencing unhealthy emotional attachments or breaks with reality. Now a group of affected people are turning to each other for support.

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Shannon Bond is a business correspondent at NPR, covering technology and how Silicon Valley's biggest companies are transforming how we live, work and communicate.
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