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An OpenAI spokesperson told WaPo that "emotional engagement with ChatGPT is rare in real-world usage."
In an age where people will anthropomorphize a toaster and create an emotional bond there, in an age where people are feeling isolated and increasingly desperate for emotional connection, you think this is a RARE thing??
ffs
Roomba, the robot vacuum cleaner company, had to institute a policy where they would preserve the original machine as much as possible, because people were getting attached to their robot vacuum cleaner, and didn't want it replaced outright, even when it was more economical to do so.
And thus the flaw in AI is revealed.
LLM AI chatbots were never designed to give life advice. People have this false perception that these tools are like some kind of magical crystal ball that has all the right answers to everything, and they simple don't.
These models cannot think, they cannot reason. The best they could do is give you their best prediction as to what you want based on the data they've been trained on and the parameters they've been given. You can think of their results as "targeted randomness" which is why their results are close or sound convincing but are never quite right.
That's because these models were never designed to be used like this. They were meant to be used as a tool to aid creativity. They can help someone brainstorm ideas for projects or waste time as entertainment or explain simple concepts or analyze basic data, but that's about it. They should never be used for anything serious like medical, legal, or life advice.