New research by OpenAI and MIT Media Lab found that generally, the more time users spend talking to Chatgpt, the greater their loneliness. Connection is as Two studies that have not yet been reviewedOne analyzed “over 40 million Chatgpt interactions” in Openai and surveyed users, and the other conducted surveys at MIT Media Lab after four weeks of use by participants.
MIT research Several ways to talk to chatGPT (whether through words or sound) have been identified that influence a person’s emotional experience rather than the general discovery that higher use leads to “lost and reduced sociality.” For example, participants who already trusted chatbots and tended to rely on relationships in relationships felt more lonely and emotionally dependent on chat during the study period. However, these effects are not that serious with Chatgpt’s voice mode, especially if Chatgpt speaks in a neutral tone. Discussing personal topics also tend to lead to loneliness in the short term, and it is interesting to note that talking about more general topics with Chatgpt is more likely to increase emotional dependence.
From Openai’s research It is still uncommon to have emotional conversations with Chatgpt. “For a small percentage of heavy-duty advanced voice mode users we studied, there was an interaction of emotional expression in a large percentage of usage,” Openai wrote. This suggests that even if the MIT findings are worrying, they are not surprising, nor are they widespread among a small percentage of power users.
The MIT Media Lab and OpenAI research had important limitations, just as the two studies covered a short period of time (MIT was one month and OpenAI was 28 days), and there was no control group for comparison. These studies do provide more evidence for a period of time with intuitive authenticity – talking to AI has psychological effects on human speech. Given the strong interest in making AI a fascinating conversation partner, is it In video games Or as a way Simplify the work of YouTube creatorsit is obvious that MIT Media Lab and OpenAI are right, and want to understand what happens when talking to AI is the norm.
