For one woman, the answer is yes. Through using ChatGPT, this woman had found it was easy to personalize the responses from the chatbot to describe what she wanted. Imagine asking a chatbot to provide you with the emotional support of a real relationship, only to essentially (and accidentally) “fall in love” with it. She was making her own world of love and companionship with the affluence of AI, even feeling the same emotions as one might feel towards a human counterpart (such as jealousy, for instance). This woman would even “have sex”, often inciting ChatCPT to be sexually explicit in response – so much so that an attachment to the chatbot began. Is it possible to be in love with a system like ChatGPT? Or, is love something that is explicitly human?
Is it Possible to Be in Love with Artificial Intelligence?
