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OpenAI’s new ChatGPT can flirt. What could go wrong?
OpenAI’s efforts to make its AI so engaging are disconcerting
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If OpenAI’s mostly male engineers are trying to build the perfect girlfriend, they seem to be on the right track.
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“Her.” That was the single tweet that OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman posted as his lieutenants demoed a new ChatGPT with the same alluring vocal flourishes Scarlett Johansson used in the movie about a man who falls in love with his artificial intelligence (AI) assistant.
The most impressive thing about the new GPT-4o (the “o” stands for omni) is that it can discuss what it “sees” through your phone camera in real time, a skill that Google faked in a demo for its AI model in December 2023. More startling was that it didn’t just sound human but… strangely seductive.
