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The ChatGPT secret: is that text message from your friend, your lover – or a robot?
People are turning to chatbots to solve all their life problems, and they like its answers. But are they on a very slippery slope?
The singer Lily Allen recently said on her podcast that she uses ChatGPT to mediate text arguments with her husband, using prompts such as “add in a bit about how I think this is all actually to do with his mum”. It is being used for reflective journalling, dream analysis and exercises in different therapeutic schools; there are even dedicated (and unauthorised) relationship chatbots advising in the manner of the celebrity therapist Esther Perel. Having used ChatGPT as a research tool through his master’s degree, Liam began exploring it as a means of therapeutic support, telling it “like I was talking to a person” about his painful mixed feelings of resentment and loss.
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