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Opinion | OpenAI is selling its new chatbot as a flirty and obedient female companion
It’s all a little creepy, and it raises questions about whether the development of this kind of technology will prey on human vulnerabilities.
In that film, Joaquin Phoenix, who plays a lonely writer going through a divorce, falls in love with a charming, superintelligent AI personal assistant voiced by Scarlett Johansson. GPT-4o is not a fraction as advanced as the AI character in “Her,” but it’s not hard to see how people who don’t understand how it works — particularly if they’re emotionally vulnerable — may be prone to projecting sentience onto the chatbot and seek substantial companionship with it. And we do know that these companies’ profit margins benefit from convincing us to use bots as a Band-Aid solution for feeling lonely or abandoned, instead of working together to counteract the kinds of political, economic and social forces that corrode community, limit our freedom, and incentivize addition to screens.
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