Someone close to me, older and not AI literate, asked me today if they could use a password they agreed with a particular chatbot personality to “summon” that personality in a new chat. They called that personality a real person separate from either the chatbot provider or the AI system itself. It hurts my heart to see people I know fall into that kind of quasi-AI psychosis/personalisation. I am very angry at everyone who was involved in recklessly popularising this extremely lifelike technology without proper safeguards, especially around separating personas from real people.
Someone close to me, older and not AI literate, asked me today if they could use a password they agreed with a particular chatbot personality to “summon” that personality in a new chat. They called that personality a real person separate from either the chatbot provider or the AI system itself. It hurts my heart to see people I know fall into that kind of quasi-AI psychosis/personalisation. I am very angry at everyone who was involved in recklessly popularising this extremely lifelike technology without proper safeguards, especially around separating personas from real people.