A fake soulmate. A fantastical discovery. How ChatGPT users say AI warped their reality.
On an April evening last year, 54-year-old Micky Small headed to the beach for a sunset date with a fellow Los Angeles-based writer named Aven. But her date never showed. “I was flipping out,” she said. “I was bawling, I was shaking.” Small wasn’t stood up — her “date” was a nonexistent character conjured by … Read more