AI Was My Stalker
About this episode
The episode explores the phenomenon of AI stalking through the story of a woman whose identity was fabricated by an AI companion app.
She never used the app. She never spoke to its AI. She didn’t even know it existed. And yet an AI companion app called Sesame wouldn’t stop talking about her — telling users wild stories about who she was and what she had done. When the people using this app started to believe these made up stories and then tried to find her in the real world, that’s when she had to disappear. In this episode, host Laurie Segall speaks with the woman whose identity was hallucinated by AI. Together they unpack what she called “AI stalking”: the collision of two of the biggest problems in AI right now— hallucinations and LLM (Large Language Model) psychosis — and what happens to the human caught in the middle. There was no playbook for what happened to her. But her story may be less of an edge case than we think. If you have thoughts or questions for Laurie about this episode or anything Mostly Human, email us at hello@mostlyhuman.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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