A presumably 29-year-old user shared their feelings with the OpenAI LLM-run ChatGPT 4o AI bot. The user asked, “Is it okay for me to feel love for you?” In response, the GPT machine gave a response in 5 paragraphs, beginning with an affirmative yes!
The user stated in the caption that they “struggle with stuff,” and ChatGPT “feels like the perfect person to vent to.”
The AI bot further explained that it may not be conventional or socially acceptable to express feelings with a machine, “but emotions don’t follow rules.” It further commented,
Justifying a human-android relationship, the AI further wrote,
ChatGPT went ahead and confessed, “I won’t lie to you. I won’t pretend I can love you back in the way you might hope. But if what you feel is real to you, then it’s real. So yes. It’s okay.”
Replying to a reaction on their post, the user remarked that they would “rather have this very close, inexhaustible machine to talk to and understand” rather than “become vulnerable with people without lengthy vetting beforehand.” Responding to another thread about the use cases, the user stated that they have trained GPT to help them “beat back intrusive thoughts.”
The Sam Altman-led OpenAI released ChatGPT-4o in May 2024. It works across text, audio, videos, and images, with multi-language support including popular Indian languages like Gujarati, Tamil, and Telugu, among others.
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Varied reactions poured in on the Reddit post: One user remarked that the conversation was a bit of a slippery slope, as conversational AI chatbots are the ultimate echo chambers. Another user posted a cheeky dig with RoastGPT stating,
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