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Casey Newton

Most AI chatbots are cold and clinical. OpenAI's new voice mode for ChatGPT is warm and flirty. That could have big, unpredictable consequences platformer.news/openai-gpt-4o-

@caseynewton It's also just... icky. It's giving "assistant who has to flirt with her boss lest she get fired."

@caseynewton these demos are crazy. Really interested to try this out

@caseynewton “[Other bots are] never more emotional than a librarian would be in recommending a book.”
What kinda Stepford wife librarians are people meeting; mine are more than happy to gush about books. That’s WHY they’re librarians.

@caseynewton Hmmm, not sure that is a good idea, you could already tweak the responses a bit. Out of curiosity I asked ChatGPT to call me dude, and insert scifi and heavy metal references. Which made the answers completely useless. It got so tangled up in its responses that facts mattered less than those quotes.

Fun but useless. Add some force to your code and rock on. Surf’s up dude!

@caseynewton and, of course, it’s a female voice. Because everyone wants a flirty female-voiced assistant.

@caseynewton yikes, I find that kind of banter to be deeply uncomfortable

@caseynewton I have a question about their last line. Have they never seen a librarian *really* recommend a book?

@caseynewton Additional Laws of Robotics, invented by a Bulgarian SciFi writer:

4. A robot must always identify itself as a robot.

5. A robot must know that it is a robot.

@caseynewton Why would ChatGPT-o be free and flirty? Flirty to lure people in and addict them. Free because any user input will be used to train new models. #chatbait