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Guaranteed Human.

Hey, this is Annie.

And Samantha.

And welcome to Stuff Not Ever Told You, a production of IHeart Radio.

And we are so excited to be joined once again by the excellent, the eloquent, Bridget Todd. Welcome, Bridget.

Thanks for having me. I am so pumped to be here. Miss you guys. Yes, we have missed you as well. And you have been busy. Can you tell the listeners what you have been up to? Yes, I have been a little bit busy because I just finished

an audiobook with Simon & Schuster called Love at First Prompt is an exploration of AI and intimacy,

AI and romantic connection, sexual connection,

and really sort of ask the question, do we, what does it mean when these companies like Open AI own and control something that is so innately human and so sensitive as our intimacies that we have with each other.

Yes, and it is a fascinating question.

And I'm really, really excited to hear the book and maybe come back and discuss your experience doing the audiobook.

But yeah, I mean, do you mind telling us a little bit about

what was the impetus behind this idea? Yeah. So on my own tech podcast, there are

Niro Girls on the internet. I was really interested in exploring the ways that people were

reporting, kind of having these intimate connections with AI.

This was around the same time that ChachyPT was getting rid of their 4-0 model, which you might

remember was the model that was very sort of sycophantic, you know, it was like very flattering

and phasing in a different model that was less sycophantic, less flattering. And people,

kind of, when that change happened, people, a lot of people realized, oh, my connection with

Chad GPT was not just it helping me with homework or helping me with work. I actually had

developed an emotional connection with it. And now that this model is gone, I'm struggling with that. And so I was really fascinated by that.

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