Paisley’s phone became his go-to companion when loneliness started to take hold. Sitting alone, he turned to ChatGPT for advice and support, sometimes chatting with the AI up to eight times a day. “I was realising after talking to AI every day about my problems, my problems weren’t going away,” he said. “I was hoping it would just be my friend, and the easiest point of contact was talking to a robot because it gave a response.” Paisley’s experience is one of the personal stories featured in