New Delhi, March 25 -- People who use ChatGPT regularly may experience increased loneliness and emotional dependence, OpenAI revealed in its recent study titled Investigating Affective Use and Emotional Well-being on ChatGPT. The study referred to these people as "power users."

OpenAI conducted a comprehensive study exploring how increased usage of the ChatGPT chatbot could impact human behaviour. MIT Media Labs also conducted a parallel study on the same subject.

Nearly 1,000 participants took part in the 28-day randomised controlled experiment.

"As AI chatbots see increased adoption and integration into everyday life, questions have been raised about the potential impact of human-like or anthropomorphic AI on users. In this work, we ...