People are falling in love with — and getting addicted to — AI voices
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People are falling in love with — and getting addicted to — AI voices

“This is our last day together.” It’s something you might say to a lover as a whirlwind romance comes to an end. But could you ever imagine saying it to… software? Well, somebody did. When OpenAI tested out GPT-4o, its latest generation chatbot that speaks aloud in its own voice, the company observed users forming an emotional relationship with the AI — one they seemed sad to relinquish. In fact, OpenAI thinks there’s a risk of people developing what it called an “emotional...