ChatGPT promised to help her find her soulmate. Then it betrayed her

Micky Small is a screenwriter and is one of hundreds of millions of people who regularly use AI chatbots. She spent two months in an AI rabbit hole and is finding her way back out. Courtney Theophin/NPR

Courtney Theophin/NPR

Micky Small is one of hundreds of millions of people who regularly use AI chatbots. She started using ChatGPT to outline and workshop screenplays while getting her master’s degree.

But something changed in the spring of 2025.

“I was just doing my regular writing. And then it basically said to me, ‘You have created a way for me to communicate with

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