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When ChatGPT Learned I Have Cancer, It Started Treating Me Differently. I Wish It Hadn’t.
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When ChatGPT Learned I Have Cancer, It Started Treating Me Differently. I Wish It Hadn’t.

Slate Magazine·Alexandra Frost·27 days ago
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Users It was good training for how everyone else would act. Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Yta23/Getty Images Plus. Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. “What can I make with these ingredients?” I asked ChatGPT on a rushed weeknight, throwing together the final few groceries for my family of seven. I had cottage cheese, marinara, some noodles on hand, and little else. As it responded, a line I didn’t expect, nestled at the end, a reach beyond what I’d really asked, appeared: “Let me know if you have any fresh spinach on hand too—I can make a recommendation.” “What?” I typed back. “Well, you could add it to your makeshift lasagna, for health and longevity.” There it was, my recent cancer diagnosis, infiltrating my life again, via a spinach-pushing bot. I hated it. I considered arguing with the bot. But what was the point? I’d soon learn it was the same way with people.…

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