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OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’
(www.theguardian.com)
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Honestly the longer I live the more I realize I understand nothing about human psychology or sociology. I hated this movie because it was so deeply disturbing and, more relevantly(?), unrealistic. I mean who wants to be in a relationship with a computer? It's unbelievably cringey. I was disgusted with it's success. But now I'm thinking maybe it was so successful because people actually yearned for that sort of artificial relationship.