New research from OpenAI shows that heavy chatbot usage is correlated with loneliness and reduced socialization. Will AI companies learn from social networks’ mistakes?
Chat gpt is my only friend right now
They might be confusing correlation witu causality. A bit biased and confused.
Too bad nobody saw this coming, they could have made a great movie about this 10 years ago.
Maybe this internet thing was a bad idea? 🤔
An economic system of infinite growth was the bad idea.
The internet was fine before it started being monetized.
Note that these studies aren’t suggesting that heavy ChatGPT usage directly causes loneliness. Rather, it suggests that lonely people are more likely to seek emotional bonds with bots
The important question here is: do lonely people seek out interaction with AI or does AI create lonely people? The article clearly acknowledges this and then treats the latter like the likely conclusion. It definitely merits greater study.
