Higher use of chatbots like ChatGPT may correspond with increased loneliness, according to new research.
chatbots like ChatGPT may correspond with increased loneliness and less time spent socialising with other people, according to new research fromThose who spent more time typing or speaking with ChatGPT each day tended to report higher levels of emotional dependence on, and problematic use of, the chatbot, as well as heightened levels of loneliness, according to research released on Friday.
In recent months, there have been renewed concerns about the potential emotional harms of this technology San Francisco-based OpenAI sees the new studies as a way to get a better sense of how people interact with, and are affected by, its popular chatbot. “Some of our goals here have really been to empower people to understand what their usage can mean and do this work to inform responsible design,” said Sandhini Agarwal, who heads OpenAI’s trustworthy AI team and co-authored the research.To conduct the studies, the researchers followed nearly a thousand people for a month.
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