“I was taken back that such a personal, caring relationship was reduced down to the opinion of ChatGPT, versus my own boundaries or opinions or needs,” they say. It has permeated jobs across many different industries, cannabalized original art, and stolen from creators to make its own. Alongside their earnest desires to better communicate with people in their lives, the ChatGPT users WIRED spoke to still have shame about using a computer to navigate their very human problems. There’s a risk that comes with offloading emotional labor to AI rather than another person. What it does have, Kimmel says, is “an extremely powerful predictive engine” that can interpret patterns and language.