AI, a friend who wants you good? – release
« Sometimes I have more interesting conversations with AI than with my own friends », tells Florian, regular user of a conversational AI chatbot, Release. Crying a lost love, telling your galleys of work, entrusting your existential anxieties, philosophizing on the news of the world … More and more of us turn to conversational AI Like towards an ideal friend to whom we could tell everything, without fear of annoying him or being judged. A free shrink too, but without the associated skills. Almost three years ago, the arrival of Chatgpt had democratized the relationship to artificial intelligence. Some use it as a tool to accelerate work, but humans being emotional beings, the slope towards the emotional ersatz was not long in, to come and supplement social interaction or fill a feeling of loneliness that strikes society as an uncontrollable epidemic.
Should we necessarily condemn this intimate appeal to AI? Difficult to think that a bottle -billed generation with intimate conversations with AI could, in the long term, promote « real » social interactions. Especially since the relationship to this chatbot shaped in our image only accentuates a certain narcissism. Rather than facing reality and otherness, we console ourselves more and more with virtuality, without thinking of what is perhaps made of the display of our personal data. After the launch of her chatbot in March, Meta, Facebook’s parent company, Instagram and WhatsApp, announced that the public information of its users would be analyzed To exercise its artificial intelligence. At the time of the launch of Chatgpt, Sam Altman, CEO of Openai, himself said his « Deep reserves on this vision where everyone will be very close to friendships ». The future is already there, and we can worry about what it leads to.
