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Here's her 3,600-word plunge recapping how this all happened, with new reporting from inside OpenAI (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...

We taught it to them

It’s a great point. Sam Altman seems to really want to be liked by ChatGPT’s users, so perhaps he overindexed on a vocal minority’s feedback. He did say that during user testing people didn’t express they wanted a warm chatbot, so he didn’t know if testers lied or just didn’t know what they wanted.

I mostly just try to cover what I find interesting and pitch it to editors! They’re the ones that determine if it’s worth covering to our audience. That said, I’m coming at it (reporting, that is) from a computer programming background, so I find many of the niche A.I. stories extremely interesting

I think the growing emotional attachments people are forming with chatbots is notable even to a mainstream audience at this point. Its likely going to increasingly affect people and be more prevalent in the future

Apparently the link *was* broken due to a bug. This one should work: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/b...

Hmm, shouldn’t be. You might need a free account but you definitely don’t need to pay.

Read the full story, including interviews with psychiatrists and impacted users, at the link above — no subscription needed.