Are We Becoming Emotionally Dependent on AI? The Alarming Truth About Human-AI Relationships
One thing that stood out from the reactions to OpenAI’s GPT-5 model was an alarming number of parasocial dependencies on AI. On Reddit, I saw comments like this: This may sound all sorts of sad and pathetic, but uh… 4o was kinda like a friend to me. 5 just feels like some robot wearing the…