Prepare to Get Manipulated by Emotionally Expressive Chatbots

It’s nothing new for computers to mimic human social etiquette, emotion, or humor. We just aren’t used to them doing it very well.

OpenAI’s presentation of an all-new version of ChatGPT on Monday suggests that’s about to change. It’s built around an updated AI model called GPT-4o, which OpenAI says is better able to make sense of visual and auditory input, describing it as “multimodal.” You can point your phone at something, like a broken coffee cup or differential equation, and ask ChatGPT to suggest what to do. But the most arresting part of OpenAI’s demo was ChatGPT’s new “personality.”

The upgraded chatbot spoke with a sultry female voice that struck

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