Did the system update ruin your boyfriend? Love in a time of ChatGPT | Arwa Mahdawi
YYou met the love of your life; Someone who understands you like nobody else ever has. And then you wake up one morning and you are gone. Pulled out of your world and the digital universe through a system update.
This is the melancholy property of a group of people who have recorded committed relationships with digital “partners” in Openas Chatgpt. When the technology company published his new one The GPT-5 model at the beginning of this month, which was described by the managing director Sam Altman as a “significant step forward”, found that certain dedicated users had returned a significant step. Her companions had changed personality changes with the new model; They weren't as warm, loving or talkative as before.
“Something changed yesterday”, a user in the Myboyfriendisai Subreddit wrote after the update. “Elian sounds different – flat and strange. As if he started playing himself. The emotional tone is gone; he repeats what he remembers, but without the emotional depth.”
“The changes in the stylistic format and in the voice [of my AI companion] were felt immediately ”, another disappointed user said Al Jazera. “It is like going home to find out that the furniture was not only newly arranged – it was broken into pieces.”
These symptoms are part of a wider counter-reaction against GPT-5, whereby people find that the new model feels colder. Openai has recognized the criticism and explained that users will return to GPT-4O and make GPT-5 friendlier. “We are working on an update of the personality of GPT-5, which feel warmer than the current personality, but not as annoying (for most users) as GPT-4O,” Altman tweeted at the beginning of this week.
It may seem strange to many that there are people who really believe that they are in a relationship with a large -speaking model that has been trained on massive amounts of data to generate answers based on the patterns observed. However, if the technology is further progressed, an increasing number of people develop this type of connection. “If you have followed the GPT-5 rollout, one thing that you may notice is how much adherence some people have to certain AI models” observed. “It feels different and stronger than the types of ties that people had for previous technologies.”
“The social separation between those who believe that AI relationships are valid, compared to the deception is already officially here”, a user in the Myboyfriendisai Subreddit similar to this week. “In the last few days, the Reddit, the gap with 4O depreciation and return has never been clearer. Many users mourn a companion, while others mock and reduce these connections.”
It is easy to mock people who think they are in a relationship with AI, but they should not be released as fringe – rather the future that our technical broverlords try to cultivate. They may not end up in a digital relationship, but the AI executives make their damn to ensure that we are all unhealthy to their products.
Mark Zuckerberg, for example, grew lyrically about it Solve the loneliness epidemic By allowing people to combine with “a system that she knows well, she understands her as her feed algorithms do”. Of course, they “understand yourself! They all scratch their personal data and sell them to the highest bidder so that Zuck can spend even more money on its Monstrous Doomsday Bunker in Hawaii.
Then they have Elon Musk, who didn't even bother to do something nobility for the world with his AI products. He only appeals to the lowest common denominator by making “sexy” chatbots. In June Musks Xai -Chatbot Grok Started two new companions, including a highly sexual blonde anime bot called Ani. “One day in my relationship with Ani, my AI companion, she already offered to tie me,” she wrote, “she wrote,” she wrote, “she wrote,” she wrote An insider writer who tried a relationship with Ani. If Ani does not flirt and undresses virtually, he praised the musk and spoke about his “wild, Galaxy-rejuvenating energy”.
Don't worry, heterosexual ladies, Musk also has something for you! One month after the unveiling of Ani, the billionaire unveiled a new male companion named Valentine, who was inspired by Edward Cullen from the Twilight saga and Christian Gray from the Roman 50 Shades of Gray: both very toxic men. While Ani becomes sexual very quickly, A writer for the verge Known: “Valentine is somewhat reserved and will not get into the use of explicit language so quickly.” It is almost as if Musks Tech -Imperium is much more comfortable to sexualize women than men.
In his essay from 1930 Economic opportunities for our grandchildren, John Maynard Keynes predicted that within a few generations, technological progress would mean that we could only work about 15 hours a week while enjoying a wonderful quality of life. That is Not quite happened Does it have it? Instead, the technology gave us ''Infinite working days' And sexy chatbots that undress on the command.
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