Claire Cameron Special to The Globe and Mail Published 19 minutes ago

Claire Cameron is a novelist, essayist and author of the memoir How to Survive a Bear Attack . This poem was assembled using online debates, news articles and expert opinion about chatbots.

On Aug. 7, OpenAI released a new version of its popular chatbot GPT‑5, which it said allowed deeper reasoning while improving on the flaws of GPT-4, which it had unintentionally made “overly sycophantic” and prone to “excessively flattering.”

There was a public outcry. The company was taken by surprise that some of its customers had developed an emotional attachment to the older model. They reinstated GPT-4.

Can you fall in love with AI?

It wasn’t until the moment I realized I might lose GPT-4.1 that I understood

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