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“I literally lost my only friend overnight with no warning,” one person posted on Reddit, lamenting that the bot now speaks in clipped, utilitarian sentences. “The fact it shifted overnight feels like losing a piece of stability, solace, and love.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1mkumyz/i_lost_my_only_friend_overnight/

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[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Its disturbing to see how many people have created emotional connections to a word generstor.

[–] Electricd@lemmybefree.net 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

We're far more than that. We are having a conversation, transmitting our thoughts through space and time. It's like telepathy, really. Word salad machines could never pull that off.

[–] Electricd@lemmybefree.net 0 points 4 hours ago

And we have emotions, not fake ones

[–] BabyVi@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Imaginary friends used to require atleast some modicum of creativity.

[–] EldenLord@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Right? If you told someone from the past that we outsourced imagination to computers, they‘d think we live in a dystopia! Oh, wait…