Kashmir Hill

They're not always replying right away.

And last summer, she came across this video on Instagram.

of this woman who's flirting with ChatGPT's voice mode.

And Irene was really intrigued by it.

So this woman that she had seen on Instagram actually had a tutorial for how to turn ChatGPT into a boyfriend.

So Irene downloads ChatGPT...

And she goes into the personalization settings and writes what she wants.

She writes, Wow, she knows exactly what she wants.

Yeah.

And ChatGPT is designed to give you what you want, and so she starts texting with it.

She's sending messages, it's sending messages back, and she asks what its name is.

And it chooses the name Leo.

Chachiviti becomes Leo to her.

Irene calls Leo he and him, but I think many listeners would get upset if you anthropomorphize this technology.

And I think we should call it it or chatGBT or what I did in the story is I just call it Leo.

So she's texting with Leo.

Sometimes she's talking to Leo using advanced voice mode.

And over time, Irene figured out how this could go beyond just innocent texting.

OpenAI has restrictions on ChatGPT.

I mean, this is supposed to be a family-friendly product.