ChatGPT and identity issues
ChatGPT and identity issues

Summary/Abstract: This paper, which largely consists of an interview with ChatGPT, attempts to demonstrate that the aspects of the identity and subjectivity of artificial intelligence (AI) is not as simple as it might seem. When analysed from such a perspective, it turns out that AI is not a neutral tool. It cannot be reduced to a passive object, either. Following an observation put forward many years ago by Jean Baudrillard, one could venture to say that it is begin- ning to define the meaning of the reality in which we live. Artificial intelligence humbly acknowledges that it does not possess self-awareness “in the full sense of the word”, but at the same time, it knows us better than we know ourselves – it knows our predispositions, preferences, habits, and the way we communicate with other people. We may therefore have the uncomfortable feeling (AI is not yet capable of feeling emotions) that this virtual person is surprisingly real in a world where everything is digitised, simulated, and unreal.

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