OpenAI plans to allow sexting with ChatGPT.
A human-AI interaction expert warns of a privacy nightmare.
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Photograph: Yana Iskayeva/ Getty Images Comment Loader Save Story Save this story Comment Loader Save Story Save this story Julie Carpenter doesn’t blame human users at all for anthropomorphizing chatbots.
The longtime human-AI interaction expert and author of The Naked Android sees generative AI tools, like ChatGPT , as intentionally designed to elicit these reactions from users through highly personalized memories and interactions that replicate social experiences.
These one-sided connections may become even more complicated, and potentially disastrous, when AI-generated erotica is added as an option.