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What Happens When an Assistant Uses Your Own Voice?
Nicholas Jitkoff tried using his own voice as an assistant and found the doppelganger unsettling. It also implied, to him, that the assistant had access to the same knowledge he does. No one else was using it. He was speaking, and hearing it speak back in his own voice.
Identity and trust are tangled, and people who help define an identity may trust it more. Hearing a voice you know leads you to expect that person, and then to judge the replies by how that person would feel about you. Using yourself is odder, because you are less likely to read extra meaning into what it does. He was testing what it would be like if he could pick any identity and chose his own. Some people have made mirrors of themselves online that others can talk to. In text that is less obvious. In voice, it carries a heavier implication that it is them.