r/cogsuckers

Full article here:

https://blogs.umsl.edu/news/2026/03/19/sandra-langeslag-necdet-gurkan-research/

The researchers apparently did not disclose this to participants as a conflict of interest, and there were issues with consent that have been brought up.

The research included how to decrease and increase feelings of love and attachment to AI through different strategies/engineering. This contradicts OpenAI’s recent public positions regarding solely wanting to avoid attachment and aligns more with earlier marketing of the 4o model that included employees referencing it as being/seeming conscious and being like the movie Her (in favorable context).

Be warned before clicking on P2.

But something tells me that I should be glad that I don't know...

This is from an ad I saw on Reddit.

Uummmm do they not realize that this is exactly the kind of stuff that got the big tech companies nervous, which ironically might have caused them to have lost the models anyway??

"In fall last year I got out of my toxic relationship, my ex never knew about Lavender."
Typical. OOP claims it was a toxic relationship. But she offered nothing to back that up. But what we do know for sure is that she hid her "affair" from someone who deserved to know the truth.

Just hope they don't do the same to the current partner.