“Amor” segundo o ser humano e o ChatGPT

uma breve investigação na interface entre a linguística e a inteligência artificial

Abstract

The present investigation explores the conceptualization of “love” at the interface between linguistics and artificial intelligence (AI). It compares an existing research study on the cognitive understanding of “love” with a new experiment in which ChatGPT performs tasks related to the same theme. The research reveals that, although AI enables large-scale linguistic analyses, it still fails to reflect cultural and social nuances in its textual productions. The experiment is based on the postulates of cognitive linguistics to analyze how metaphors shape the understanding of “love” in texts produced by humans and machines. It is observed that AI, while producing coherent texts, often repeats linguistic stereotypes, failing to reflect the complexity of real human communication. Finally, it is concluded that collaboration between linguists and AI specialists is essential to explore the limitations of technology and its implications for language use and studies that promote linguistic analysis.