So, one of my dude's autistic quirks is he can't stand unread notifications on any website not being zero and has a compulsion to clear notifications, and I watched him get into a notification clearing loop for almost half an hour with an AI chat bot on a local temp work agency website.
Every time you navigated to a new page on the website the AI chat bot asked if you needed help making an unread message, so he'd open the bot chat to clear the notification, then navigate to the next page, where the bot would ask it's question again, and he'd open and close the chat to make it go away, getting more and more frustrated as he went from page to page. I don't think he ever found the information he was looking for on the website because he spent so much energy distracted by the existence of the chat bot in the corner trying to get his attention.
In retrospect, I probably should have intervened after I noticed him repeat the pattern twice, but I'll admit that my autistic curiosity got the better of me and I wanted to see how long he was gonna get stuck in the pattern loop before he gave up.
