Is AI ruining our lives? OpenAI has been forced to retract an update that made ChatGPT tell users how handsome and wonderful they are. Some think it marks dark times for humanity.
Exposed: ChatGPT the lying flatterer
Yes man: Four hundred million of us use ChatGPT every week, asking it everything from holiday suggestions to relationship advice. Glossary
Hegel - A 19th-Century German philosopher.
ChatGPT - An Artificial Intelligence chatbot released in November 2022.
OpenAI - An American artificial intelligence company. It says its mission is to "benefit all of humanity".
Psychosis - A serious mental health condition in which sufferers are severely detached from reality.
Obsequious - Overly attentive, almost behaving like a servant.
WHO - Short for the World Health Organisation.
Parasocial - Involving or relating to a connection between a person and someone they do not know personally, for example a famous person or a character in a book.
Reciprocal - Mutual; from both sides.
Narcissism - Exaggerated feelings of self-importance.