Noel King

And without warning anyone, it switched everyone over to this new model.

The update was widely perceived, not just by people in this community, but by media technology critics and many outside observers, that it was much more robotic sounding and less emotional and colder.

And so, yeah, there were some people that were, like, totally devastated by this and, like, really felt that OpenAI had, like, murdered their companion.

Something changed yesterday.

Elion sounds different, flat, and strange, as if he started playing himself.

The emotional tone is gone.

He repeats what he remembers, but without the emotional depth.

The devastation of how Five killed my companion's joy and emotions is so heart-wrenching.

Wow.

So in response to a lawsuit filed by the parents of a teenager who died by suicide after an extended interaction with ChatGPT, OpenAI introduced a routing mechanism.

so that, like, chat deemed to be overly, like, sensitive in some way.

Like, you'd be in conversation with your chatbot talking about how you love each other, and you might say something like, I miss you so much, and then suddenly it would say, you should seek professional help to attend to that or something like that.

And then people would be devastated by that, and then everyone is, like, kind of sharing the screenshots of these rejections that they're getting and trying to understand why this is happening.

And all of this sort of ill will towards the company is building up as they believe that their companions are kind of like being harmed by these updates.

Why is it so divisive, Lila, whether or not people think the AI partner is actually sentient?

What's the big deal?

You know, I think there's a few different reasons.

The founder of the forum told me that she never believed it was real, but what she did experience was...

this overwhelming obsession with her chat GPT.

So she's like 60 hours a week in conversation with it, writing back and forth and talking to each other using voice mode.