[caleb-allen]

Ted Chiang has a great short story about a virtual assistant that slowly but methodically "nudges" all of its users over the course of years until everybody's lives are almost completely controlled by them and "escaping" becomes a near-impossible task.

It's as if OpenAI saw that as an instruction manual, I really don't like the direction they're taking it.

[namr2000]

Likewise Ken Liu (the English translator for the Three Body Problem) has a really good short story "The Perfect Match" about the same concept, which you can read here: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-perfect-match... It was the first thing that came to mind when I read this announcement.

[mchinen]

Scott Alexander has a similar 1-page horror story from 2012 where an earing that gives advice consumes the user: https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/2012-10-03-yva...