ChatGPT’s ‘Adult Mode’ could spark a new era of intimate surveillance
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WIRED — Julie Carpenter doesn’t blame human users at all for anthropomorphizing chatbots. The longtime human-AI interaction expert and author of The Naked Android sees generative AI tools, like ChatGPT, as intentionally designed to elicit these reactions from users through highly personalized memories and interactions that replicate social experiences.
These one-sided connections may become even more complicated, and potentially disastrous, when AI-generated erotica is added as an option. Carpenter is apprehensive about OpenAI’s upcoming plans to allow adults to sext with ChatGPT. “
I'm for people exploring their sexuality, but I want it in a way that's safe for them as well as fun,” she says. “People have to be very aware that there’s a surveillance aspect to the data.”
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