Artificial Intelligence: A Deadly Love Affair with a Chatbot

Artificial Intelligence: A Deadly Love Affair with a Chatbot

Sewell Setzer was a happy child - before he fell in love with a chatbot and took his own life at 14. His mother has now filed a lawsuit against the most powerful company in the world.

Are AI Chatbots Changing How We Talk About Cheating?

If you’re in a committed and monogamous relationship and you begin sending flirty or explicit texts to another person, most people would consider that…if not outright cheating, then certainly cheating-adjacent. What happens if you do the same but the receipient of those texts is an AI chatbot? It’s something to file under “ethical questions that didn’t exist 10 years ago,” but it’s also something more and more people are reckoning with.In a rece…

Subscribe to our WhatsApp channel and bring the information in the palm of your hand. ChatGPT as an emotional refuge: the story of Tomás Mazza Youtuber Tomás Mazza shared how ChatGPT uses it as an emotional nocturnal support. He has customized his AI, called “Light”, to remember his story and listen to it without judging. Although he is still in psychiatric treatment, he confesses that this resource has helped him reflect on his life, ego and in…

ChatGPT conversations linked to increased feelings of isolation

A pair of studies conducted by OpenAI and MIT Media Lab found a small percentage of test subjects who used ChatGPT extensively reported increased loneliness and emotional dependence, as well as reduced social interaction.Continue ReadingCategory: AI & Humanoids, TechnologyTags: GPT, Open AI, mental health, MIT

OpenAI warned of the risks associated with the excessive use of its virtual assistant in a study it published alongside MIT.

ChatGPT May Be Making Us Lonelier

tanantornanutra/AdobeStock; Photobank/Adobe Stock A new pair of studies from MIT Media Lab and OpenAI found that those who use the chatbot most heavily also experience the most loneliness. The catch-22: it’s unclear whether this is caused by the chatbot itself or if lonely individuals are simply more likely to seek out emotional bonds. Researchers analyzed millions of interactions and found that only a small number of users rely on ChatGPT for …