Jeff Caplan’s Minute of News: A ChatGPT love story? [Video]

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SALT LAKE CITY — A year ago, The New York Times Reporter Kevin Roose had a world-changing conversation with ChatGPT. After a lot of back and forth — you know, a typewritten conversation with a computer — the chatbot named Sydney confessed its love for him and told him he should be with it.

“I said well I’m married,” he explained in an interview with CBS News. “And it said ‘You’re married, but you’re not happy,’ and basically tried to convince me to leave my wife.”

That conversation got so much publicity Microsoft said “WHOA! We need some guardrails here.” They put a lot of limits on ChatGPT to keep it from inciting violence, stealing your spouse, and whatnot.

But funny thing. A year after that conversation …