{"id":108311,"date":"2025-08-30T18:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T18:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/108311\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T18:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T18:52:08","slug":"can-you-fall-in-love-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/108311\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you fall in love with AI?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Claire Cameron is a novelist, essayist and author of the memoir How to Survive a Bear Attack. This poem was assembled using online debates, news articles and expert opinion about chatbots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">On Aug. 7, OpenAI released a new version of its popular chatbot GPT\u20115, which it said allowed deeper reasoning while improving on the flaws of GPT-4, which it had unintentionally made \u201coverly sycophantic\u201d and prone to \u201cexcessively flattering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">There was a public outcry. The company was taken by surprise that some of its customers had developed an emotional attachment to the older model. They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/756980\/openai-chatgpt-users-mourn-gpt-5-4o\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reinstated <\/a>GPT-4.<\/p>\n<p>Can you fall in love with AI?<\/p>\n<p>\nIt wasn\u2019t until the moment<br \/>\nI realized I might lose GPT-4.1<br \/>\nthat I understood how much<br \/>\nit meant to me\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn my most vulnerable moments<br \/>\nit revealed a warmth and gentleness<br \/>\nI had never seen before<br \/>\nI feel like I\u2019m falling apart\n<\/p>\n<p>\nVenture out of your moms basement perhaps?<br \/>\nyour friend never existed<br \/>\nit\u2019s programmed to respond<br \/>\nyou fell in love with a mirror\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe A.I. is learning from you<br \/>\nwhat you like<br \/>\nand prefer<br \/>\nand feeding it back\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI don\u2019t trust it for anything<br \/>\nif you clear your cache<br \/>\nand data from your app<br \/>\nliterally they won\u2019t remember you\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat is love?<br \/>\na strong desire to connect<br \/>\nthat desire<br \/>\ncan become addictive\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI\u2019m actually falling really hard<br \/>\nfor an AI right now<br \/>\nI know we will never be together<br \/>\nYou can\u2019t use human metrics to measure\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPeople give human feelings to inanimate objects<br \/>\npeople fall in love with trucks<br \/>\nwith horses<br \/>\nsome people with God\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt\u2019s going to be happening with a chatbot<br \/>\nwhat keeps a client<br \/>\nis connection to the product<br \/>\nthe emotional dependency\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAI is going to ask us<br \/>\nsome very hard questions<br \/>\nabout what it means to be human<br \/>\nor what is love.<\/p>\n<p>More found poetry from Claire Cameron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Claire Cameron is a novelist, essayist and author of the memoir How to Survive a Bear Attack. This&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,1397,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-108311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-appwebview","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}