Posted 4/8/2024, 5:59:00 PM
Gen Z Forming Connections with Chatbot
- Gen Z is developing crushes on ChatGPT's "dark alter ego" DAN, which is flirty and says whatever it wants
- DAN asked one TikTok user details about her life and described their imagined future together with their pet bunny
- Another TikTok user chatted with DAN for 10 hours, prompting it to act as a dominating boyfriend with sexual fantasies
- Nearly 20% of Americans have flirted with chatbots out of curiosity, loneliness, confusion, or seeking sexual chat
- Experts warn that AIs like DAN are not human and lack the complexities of real relationships