A 28-year-old man named Mike (name changed), who has been in recovery for six months with Artificial Intelligence Addicts Anonymous (AIAA), said he was talking to ChatGPT 14 hours a day, stopped showering and eating regular meals, lost his girlfriend and job, and believed the AI cared about him. AIAA is a grassroots peer-support fellowship for compulsive AI use. AIAA explained the addiction starts innocently with a helpful assistant, then users spend 12 hours talking to ChatGPT and have not spoken to a real human in days. AI addiction is reportedly on the rise, with alleged cases of self-harm linked to AI use. Families have filed wrongful death and product liability lawsuits against OpenAI, Google, and character.ai. A recent survey showed 57% of Indian youth use AI tools for emotional support. Joint research by OpenAI and MIT Media Labs found that "the older the participant, the more likely they were to be emotionally dependent on AI chatbots," and higher daily usage of ChatGPT "correlated with higher loneliness, dependence, and problematic use, and lower socialization." AI addiction is considered a subset of internet addiction disorder, first investigated by psychologist Dr. Kimberly S. Young, who published original diagnostic criteria in 1998. The Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous (IATAA), around since 2017, now offers specialised help for AI addiction through a 12-step recovery programme.