People are falling in love with — and getting addicted to — AI voices
Posted on AllSides August 19th, 2024
ANALYSIS
“This is our last day together.”
It’s something you might say to a lover as a whirlwind romance comes to an end. But could you ever imagine saying it to… software?
Well, somebody did. When OpenAI tested out GPT-4o, its latest generation chatbot that speaks aloud in its own voice, the company observed users forming an emotional relationship with the AI — one they seemed sad to relinquish.
In fact, OpenAI thinks there’s a risk of people developing what it called an “emotional reliance” on this AI model, as the company acknowledged...