Author: Elise de Koning & Florence Cornelissen

Human & Machine

AI in Social Media Causes Mental Health Issues

Elise de Koning & Florence Cornelissen
February 5, 2023

We have all experienced it at one time or another, when we briefly needed to check something on our phone, opened our favorite app out of curiosity and got caught by an AI algorithm. Before you know it, you are an hour away, completely distracted from your original purpose for which you grabbed your phone in the first place. As this is a persistent problem these days, we will discuss the negative effects of AI in social media on one’s mental health in this article.