OpenAI fears humans will become ’emotionally reliant’ on ChatGPT’s human voice

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has revealed concerns users may develop emotional dependency on the chatbot’s forthcoming voice mode. The ChatGPT-4o mode is currently being analysed for safety ahead of a rollout to the community. It enables, to a certain extent, users to converse naturally with the assistant as if it were a real person. With that comes the risk of emotional reliance, and “increasingly miscalibrated trust” of an AI model that would be exacerbated by interactions with an

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