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Dépendance émotionnelle à ChatGPT : quand la fragilité psychologique rencontre l'IA

France 24, 2025

Losing an AI companion was lived through like a bereavement.

A French overview from France 24 that sets the MIT and OpenAI research on the psychosocial effects of chatbot conversations beside what happened after changes to the Replika app, when its maker curtailed its “personality” and the intimacy of its conversations.

Users described being cut off from their AI companion in the language of bereavement — like the loss of someone close, not a service outage. The piece shows where the risk concentrates: in people already vulnerable, lonely, in crisis. For them the help from AI is most real — and the dependence deepest. Relief and dependence arrive together, in a single gesture.

The value of the entry: a French, journalistic perspective that names the thing plainly — “a fragile psyche meets AI”. For personal use the lesson is: the more you need it, the more carefully. Caveat: a press article, not a study; its strength is gathering testimony, not measurement.

Year
2025
Original language
FR
Source
France 24, 2025

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