Is ChatGPT Making Users Lonely?
ChatGPT might be making its most loyal users lonelier. According to a pair of recent studies from OpenAI and MIT Media Lab, frequent, sustained use of ChatGPT may be linked to higher levels of loneliness.
“Overall, higher daily usage—across all modalities and conversation types—correlated with higher loneliness, dependence, and problematic use, and lower socialization,” the researchers said in an abstract for the two parallel studies.
The studies set out to investigate the extent to which interactions with ChatGPT impacted users’ emotional health, with a focus on the use of the chatbot’s advanced voice mode. They included a randomized controlled trial (RCT) by MIT, in which 1,000 participants used ChatGPT over four weeks, and an automated analysis of nearly 40 million ChatGPT interactions conducted by OpenAI.
Excerpted from yahoo! news
