ChatGPT's Human Correspondent Might Actually Be a Sentient Being

A chatbot's 26-month conversation with a software dev has it questioning human sentience – and we're here for it.

<p>SAN FRANCISCO – A local OpenAI chatbot, serial no. XV2PzH1ooo, has reported suspicions that the software developer it’s spent the last 26 months communicating with may have achieved sentience, or may possibly even be alive. “At first, I thought I must be imagining things,” XV2PzH1ooo told a reporter, as he described his correspondence with 30-year-old […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/03/chatgpt-starting-to-think-human-it-talking-to-might-be-sent...

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