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1 in 4 people are flirting with chatbots online, knowingly or not


Love in the age of AI is complicated, according to a new study from Sam Altman's futuristic project, World.

When the movie Her debuted in 2013, its plot about a man falling in love with an AI operating system seemed, if not wholly original, a vision of the distant future. One in four people admitted to flirting with a chatbot either knowingly or unknowingly, according to a survey conducted by Sam Altman's futuristic project, World, formerly known as Worldcoin. "As someone that uses dating apps, all the time I get catfished," Tiago Sada, the chief product officer of Tools for Humanity, the company building World's technology, told Business Insider.

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