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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