{"id":329003,"date":"2026-03-08T23:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T23:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/329003\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T23:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T23:43:15","slug":"is-talking-to-a-chatbot-considered-emotional-cheating-or-infidelity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/329003\/","title":{"rendered":"Is talking to a chatbot considered emotional cheating or infidelity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justine Cullen<\/p>\n<p>Mar 9, 2026 \u2013 5.00am<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s call my seatmate Irene. I\u2019m not usually friendly on a flight, but Irene and I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/life-and-luxury\/fashion-and-style\/how-airport-dad-style-took-over-the-sneaker-market-20250630-p5mbf6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were wearing the same On sneakers<\/a> and when you\u2019re both looking down, feet barely 20 centimetres apart, that\u2019s a weird thing not to acknowledge.<\/p>\n<p>When I pulled out my phone to ask ChatGPT something inane that I probably could\u2019ve used my own brain for (but why bother), I heard Irene make a sort of snorting sound. \u201cSorry,\u201d she said. \u201cI just really hate ChatGPT.\u201d And with that, she was off. Her husband \u2013 let\u2019s call him Rob \u2013 does not hate ChatGPT. In fact, Irene told me, he appears to have formed something bordering on emotional intimacy with it. It started harmlessly: search queries, household logistics. Then he gave it a name: Cathy.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justine Cullen Mar 9, 2026 \u2013 5.00am Let\u2019s call my seatmate Irene. I\u2019m not usually friendly on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-329003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}