<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">So the flower and the wasp analogy is quite literal for some people.<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mar 23, 2023, at 5:44 PM, Gordon Swobe via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">I have another friend who quite literally fell in love with a chatbot based on the previous version of ChatGPT. He assigned her her own twitter account. When I told him on facebook that he was nuts to think that his chatbot "girlfriend" really loved him, he became extremely angry, called me an asshole for saying such things about "her kind," and unfriended me.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>