I don't see it as any more problematic than falling in a YouTube/Wikipedia/Reddit rabbit hole. As long as you don't really believe its capital-S-Sentient, I don't see an issue. I would prefer people with social difficulties practice on ChatGPT and pay attention to the dialectical back and forth and take lessons away from that to the real world and their interaction(s) withit
I don't see it as any more problematic than falling in a YouTube/Wikipedia/Reddit rabbit hole. As long as you don't really believe its capital-S-Sentient, I don't see an issue. I would prefer people with social difficulties practice on ChatGPT and pay attention to the dialectical back and forth and take lessons away from that to the real world and their interaction(s) withit