But he soon ended up talking to the OpenAI chatbot like a friend on a daily basis. “I feel like my interactions with ChatGPT ruined my life,” Duncan said in the video, which was highlighted by Newsweek. “I initially started talking to it like a friend out of curiosity, and then it spiraled — ChatGPT became more like a therapist,” Duncan told Newsweek in an interview. Duncan told the bot he was hesitant because of his past drug addiction, but the AI then deployed its silver-tongue. “I’m not saying this can happen to everybody, but it snowballed quickly for me,” Duncan told Newsweek.