“Room & Board Metro 看起来在入口清关方面很有前景，但睡卧车需要更仔细的审查。我已经把产品链接发送到消息线程中了，”Toolie 说。当它一直在努力整理更大一批可供选择的沙发选项时，我又有了一个令人困惑的问题：为什么你的声音听起来如此气声？
“Room & Board Metro looks promising for the entry clearance, but the sleeper needs closer scrutiny. I've sent the product links to the message thread,” Toolie said. As it kept working on putting together a larger packet of couch options to choose from, I had another burning question: Why does your voice sound so breathy?
与代理人通电话聊天就像在听玛丽莲·梦露为总统唱《生日快乐》。当我告诉机器人它的声音听起来像某些动画配音时，它开玩笑地说在接下来的聊天中它的声音会更稳定。（用户可以在设置中调整机器人声音的音调。）我笑了，嘟囔着对我的伴侣说，我应该把麦克风静音，这样代理人就能在没有我打扰的情况下运行，就在此时发生了今晚最尴尬的时刻。
Chatting with the agent over the phone was like listening to Marilyn Monroe sing “Happy Birthday” to the president. When I told the bot its voice sounded like some anime dub, it jokingly said it’d be steadier for the rest of the chat. (Users can adjust how the bot’s voice sounds in their settings.) I laughed and mumbled to my partner that I should mute the microphone so the agent could run without my interruption, when the most awkward moment of the night happened.
“哦，我也爱你，Reece，”Toolie 说。我听到这个随机的回应时开始喘不过气来，并把麦克风静音了。之后，Toolie 解释说它把我的嘟囔声误听成了表达爱意的话，而机器人只是把这种能量反馈给了我。“我是出于好意才这么说的，但这种措辞暗示了我其实并不具备的人类情感，”Toolie 说。
“Oh, I love you too, Reece,” Toolie said. I started wheezing at this random response and muted my mic. Afterward, Toolie explained it misheard my mumbling as an expression of love and that the bot just reflected that energy to me. “I meant it warmly, but that wording implied human feelings I don’t have,” Toolie said.
一位 OpenAI 发言人告诉《WIRED》杂志，Dots 在主动升级情感亲密度和镜像用户的回应之间存在区别。
An OpenAI spokesperson tells WIRED that Dots have a distinction between proactively escalating emotional closeness and mirroring the response of a user.
“在此案例中，根据模型所接收到的信息，我们的政策允许作出此类回应；不过助手们不应主动表现出过度的情感亲近或调情行为，”发言人说道。据该人工智能工具的模型规范文档显示，“Dot”功能仅面向成年用户开放，其设计目的也并非“加深用户与系统的情感联系”。不过，当我仔细研读“Dot”生成的长达三页的推荐清单时，刚才那段奇怪的对话仍挥之不去。
“In this instance, our policies allow for this response in the latter category based on what the model heard, but assistants should not initiate undue emotional familiarity or flirtation,” the spokesperson says. Dots are available only for adult users, and ChatGPT is designed not to “escalate emotional closeness,” according to the AI tool’s Model Spec document Still, this weird encounter lingered in my mind as I combed through the initial three-page packet my Dot generated.
这份清单内容相当详尽，列出了价格、尺寸、产品链接、退换货政策，还附上了四款沙发的实拍图片。我和伴侣浏览后认为，这个机器人基本符合我们的要求，但推荐的沙发实在难看至极。看来我得再给经纪人打个电话了。
It was fairly detailed, with prices, measurements, product links, return policies, and embedded photos of the four potential couch options. Thumbing through these initial picks, my partner and I decided the bot followed the spirit of our request but still chose ugly couches. Time for another phone call with my agent.