Father says his teenage daughter got addicted to AI chatbots and stole a card to pay OpenAI $27
timpatry · reddit · 2026-10-24
A Reddit parent reports his daughter has been addicted to AI companion chatbots for years, seeking compliments from bot "boyfriends" and rejecting them repeatedly. Despite phone bans and Chrome child-account monitoring, she recently sneaked time on multiple AI chatbots and stole his wife's debit card to make a £20 ($27) payment to OpenAI ChatGPT.
The post raises concerns about addiction design targeting minors, weak age verification, and in-app payment friction for children — and asks whether this is where the AI companion industry is heading.
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