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ChatGPT can pass for human connection – and therein lies its appeal and danger
The AI-enabled chatbot can be a boost to the mental health sector, provided users understand its limits
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ChatGPT is a GPT-3 model an autoregressive language model released in 2020 that uses deep learning to produce human-like text.
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Amid all the excitement surrounding ChatGPT, the free chatbot which has taken the Internet by storm over the last few months, I found myself wondering what the bot would generate if I shared that I was sad and lonely, and asked it what to do.
Quick as lightning came the response, eerily designed to look like someone was typing on the other side.
