In recent years, the impact of artificial intelligence -based chat boots on people is increasingly attracting more and more attention. Two new studies by OpenAI and MIT Media Lab revealed that users feel more lonely as they spent with Chatgpt.
These studies, which have not yet been under the control of the arbitrators, aim to examine the psychological effects of human and artificial intelligence interactions in depth. According to MIT Media Lab, people who use Chatgpt more intensively showed signs of loneliness and declining socialization in general. Interestingly, the type of conversations with chatgpt played a decisive role on these psychological effects. For example, personal issues can increase the sense of loneliness in the short term, and general issues can lead to an increase in the emotional dependencies of users to Chatgpt.
In particular, the participants, who tend to emotional attachment in human relations, developed more confidence in Chatgpt and stated that they felt more lonely in this process. However, it was observed that Chatgpt reduces these effects a little bit of these effects.
OpenAI’s other study presented a wider perspective by analyzing over 40 million ChatGPT interactions and targeted user surveys. One of the most remarkable findings of this study was that the majority of users avoided deep and emotional conversations with chatgpt. OpenAI said that “emotional expressive interactions” are only intensely observed in a particular group of user groups. This reveals that MIT’s worrying findings may be valid on a more limited scale for the general user base.
In the meantime, both studies have remarkable limitations. While MIT’s research covers only four weeks, the results are more generalized because there is no control group. OpenAI’s work is based on a 28 -day analysis period. Nevertheless, these studies offer strong signs of the existence of the psychological effects of interactions between artificial intelligence and people.
These studies bring new questions about the increasing role of artificial intelligence in our lives. The effects of chat boots like Chatgpt on social relationships and loneliness seem worthy of investigation in more detail. While people establish a healthy relationship with artificial intelligence, it will be important to understand the effects of these technologies on our emotional and social life.
