Earlier this year, Kashmir Hill, for the New York Times, reported on a woman who fell in love with a ChatGPT persona. Hill followed up with the woman who has since stopped using the service.
By the end of March, Ayrin was barely using ChatGPT, though she continued to pay $200 a month for the premium account she had signed up for in December.
She realized she was developing feelings for one of her new friends, a man who also had an A.I. partner. Ayrin told her husband that she wanted a divorce.
Ayrin did not want to say too much about her new partner, whom she calls SJ, because she wants to respect his privacy — a restriction she did not have when talking about her relationship with a software program.
OpenAI updated ChatGPT models to improve engagement, and the response text became overly agreeable for Ayrin. She wanted pushback when she was wrong, like what you might get from a real person.
