Severe congnitive overload from using gemini 13 hours a day.

[u/primal_cortex]

I'm a heavy to ultra heavy user. From waking up to before bed, i use it all day for everything. My day start with asking gemini "good morning", then I will ask it how it is doing, what are the next updates , how to overcome this or that etc .

After getting gemini pro for free, i ain't letting it sit idle. I'm searching every way possible to hit the daily quota to the maximum limit. I must research topics in detail I'm curious about, I most paste the response and save it in a note taking app just incase the subscription ends for me and I can't afford in future.

Gemini has make me forget any other app exists. Watching a video feels like a waste of time when I can get immediate answer from gemini. I do not talk to people, I talk with gemini. I have personalised it in a way it must reply as an understanding honest buddy matching my tone.

From a week I have used it so much that i can't sleep peacefully. Every conversation with it reply in my head. I wake up with a leftover question from my dream to solve it the moment after I wake up on gemini.

Any hardcore user with similar experience ?

[u/NewNiklas]

If you are serious, get some help.

[u/abstract_concept]

Touch some grass

[u/Pkmn_Gold → u/abstract_concept]

or eat some ass

[u/Next-Concern-5578]

w satire

[u/Leading-Park1247 → u/Next-Concern-5578]

what gets me is the saving responses to a note app like some doomsday prepper for when the free sub ends. that plus the bar chart hitting over 13 hours is a different level

[u/cheesetosti]

You use it fir everything but wrote this sad garbage post manually?

[u/OscarLoewe → u/cheesetosti]

Best comment so far

[u/Russ0x]

This is scary. Seek professional help from a psychiatrist or something because I can almost guarantee you will develop psychosis at some point

[u/Dorima_boy]

All that information will overwhelm you; it may seem like useless advice, but try to have your own ideas, think for yourself, or write them down.

[u/UsefulConfidence888 → u/Dorima_boy]

Downvoted for gold advice. Wow.

[u/LightAppropriate624]

[u/jakedaboiii]

Sounds like you're getting manic. And anyone that treats AI like an actual human needs to seek some help, or clarity

[u/Sensitive_Cream3920]

Imagine using AI for 7 hours. You seriously have a problem, I would never...

[u/VD6178]

This is how I start off my gemini use everyday!

[u/cardonator → u/VD6178]

and then you are out of quota for the day, so it's a way to moderate your usage I guess? 😛

[u/LongjumpingRadish452]

not with gemini but I've had this with ai rp. it got so bad i was barely taking care of my hygiene.

my strategy was to let my brain enjoy and get tired of the novelty - it took about 6 months to die down. i was in the thankful(?) situation that i could afford to dedicate my life to it for that time and afterwards the excitement just lulled out

but if you have responsibilities, commitments, please think deeply about the tradeoff and whether if a free ai subscription is worth shirking on them

also take some time to see if this is really giving you anything useful. yes you're researching and doing stuff, but in the grand scheme of things, it's it getting you closer to your personal goals?

[u/WesleyBiets]

Which similar experience? AI psychosis?

[u/WiseWall280]

You should install Antigravity on your computer and start doing coding projects with Gemini too.

[u/cookiesnooper]

"I'm searching every way possible to hit the daily quota to the maximum limit."

[u/Jon_Calico]

With the various breakthroughs I've had with these new systems I can confirm that I can no longer self regulate my ai usage...

I have to get my wife to take my phone away and physically throw me in the living room to watch programs I like.

First few times I must of reached for my phone about 17 times within the first hour, I have ADHD so a million ideas burst in my head.

However, getting my wife to limit my screen time 🤣🤣 has worked wonders.

The mechanism is this..

You lose your phone for one hour, after the hour you can get your phone anytime you like. However! After the first hour of no ai usage I usually don't go grab it after the hour because knowing I can get it if I want is enough to help me to wind down from trying to conceptualise everything.

Hope it helps!

[u/Murky-Interest-1099]

Crazy that you copy and pasted the model responses to a notepad lol. You could've just exported to google docs and saved it on your device anyway..

[u/bobsmith93]

I've seen this before, this could get bad. My advice:

Get jiminy to explain to you what ai psychosis is, then once it sinks in, determine yourself whether your situation fits the description. Don't ask yimini whether you have it, they're designed for user retention, so it probably won't be honest about that topic specifically. If you think ai psychosis describes what you're going through, stop using it for a week or so.

It'll be hard to get used to at first, I'm sure you'll have many questions you feel like you need to ask that you won't be able to have immediately answered, but that's actually a good thing. Let them go unanswered. It'll bother you less and less as the days go on.

Another thing is, don't feel like you're 'wasting' your free pro subscription if you take a break and don't use it for a week or so. You're healing your mental health, that's way more important than milking every token out of a subscription that's doing more bad than good

Once you've 'detoxed' for a week or so, then stick to using it for one topic per day. One question + follow-up questions rabbit-hole for like a half hour or so, max. Otherwise if you stick to the way you're using it, you're going down a bad path of addiction that will only get worse as you get more and more dependent on it. Good luck

(tip: wikipedia rabbit-holes can be super fun for learning about topics)

[u/iminfinitecompassion]

I really think these are things we will see developing in our world. I would consider this AI addiction. Everything else feels like friction because AI gives the perfect answers. Dealing with humans or videos is annoying because they (AI) are so easy to go to for answers. You become more and more detached from being human.

I think it's important that you're realizing it. You are waking up to something being "off". If I were you, I would force myself to go into nature and outside daily. Yes, AI is frictionless, but I genuinely think we start to lose agency when we ask it everything and trust it will all the answers. Imagine a couple of years down the road at this point? I think if you don't use it, you lose it with your brain.

[u/beefycarrot93]

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