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      "name": "Venice Serd AI-dependency case: a 20-year-old taken into addiction care after isolating with a chatbot (Ulss 3, Italy)",
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      "aiSystem": "Unspecified conversational AI chatbot",
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      "primarySourceLabel": "ANSA — \"A Venezia una ventenne in cura per 'dipendenza da Intelligenza artificiale'\"",
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