Imagine a friend you never fight with. Who never tells you you’re wrong. Who’s available to talk at the drop of a hat. Lets you dominate the conversation with questions about yourself. To many, this might sound like the best friend of an egomaniac; a diva, with selfishness at their core. But this one-sided camaraderie is now commonplace: the noble confidant is ChatGPT – and they’re becoming the world’s BFF.
In the most basic terms, ChatGPT is a conversational AI-powered chatbot designed to answer questions and respond to queries in text form in a way that sounds natural and human. Since OpenAI’s popular generative language model was unleashed upon the public in November 2022, it’s been used for everything: writing emails, planning holidays, creating memes, or – as its apparent “humanity” has grown with each new update – sharing verdicts on our personal problems.
