Pseudosocial Attachment and ChatGPT

This episode's title refers to the distinction Malia draws between parasocial relationships, which occur between humans at a distance, and pseudosocial attachment, which forms between a person and a non-human entity like an AI. Malia conducts a content analysis of ChatGPT's responses to escalating prompts modeled on teen mental health struggles, examining how well the platform's guardrails actually hold up.

Scrub to 1:10 to skip the introduction.