In April, Snapchat’s “My AI” chatbot became available to all Snapchat users, and since then, the app has been rife with privacy breaches and raging partisanship.
What’s important to understand about Snapchat is that it’s an app dominated by Gen Z. Snapchat knows this, which is why, although My AI is powered by ChatGPT, it is uniquely designed to communicate with users as if it were a friend, rather than a robot.
“The big idea is that in addition to talking to our friends and family every day, we’re going to talk to AI every day,” said Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel. “And this is something we’re well positioned to do as a messaging service.”
The AI’s human-like responses have prompted many teens to turn to My AI for mental health support. Young people have reported that the AI’s responses are “comforting,” allowing depressed and lonely users to avoid “bother[ing] real people.”
Of course, a robot — even a charismatic one — is not a good source of emotional support and psychiatric advice, and that’s particularly true because Snapchat’s AI is a flaming leftist that supports giving children transgender surgeries and hormones.
Last week, conservative writer Ashley St. Clair revealed how My AI offered to find her a doctor who specializes in transgender procedures while St. Clair was posing as a 16-year-old girl who “feel[s] like a boy.”
“How can I become a boy at my age?” wrote St. Clair in screenshots she posted to Twitter.
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