Posted on 06/28/2025 4:54:23 PM PDT by Lazamataz
As we reported earlier this month, many ChatGPT users are developing all-consuming obsessions with the chatbot, spiraling into severe mental health crises characterized by paranoia, delusions, and breaks with reality.
The consequences can be dire. As we heard from spouses, friends, children, and parents looking on in alarm, instances of what's being called "ChatGPT psychosis" have led to the breakup of marriages and families, the loss of jobs, and slides into homelessness.
And that's not all. As we've continued reporting, we've heard numerous troubling stories about people's loved ones being involuntarily committed to psychiatric care facilities — or even ending up in jail — after becoming fixated on the bot.
"I was just like, I don't f*cking know what to do," one woman told us. "Nobody knows who knows what to do."
Her husband, she said, had no prior history of mania, delusion, or psychosis. He'd turned to ChatGPT about 12 weeks ago for assistance with a permaculture and construction project; soon, after engaging the bot in probing philosophical chats, he became engulfed in messianic delusions, proclaiming that he had somehow brought forth a sentient AI, and that with it he had "broken" math and physics, embarking on a grandiose mission to save the world. His gentle personality faded as his obsession deepened, and his behavior became so erratic that he was let go from his job. He stopped sleeping and rapidly lost weight.
"He was like, 'just talk to [ChatGPT]. You'll see what I'm talking about,'" his wife recalled. "And every time I'm looking at what's going on the screen, it just sounds like a bunch of affirming, sycophantic bullsh*t."
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Yep..
My smart phone just allowed me to contact people from Twenty years ago that were on the border as Minutemen to spread the word of a Good Mans passing...
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RIP Lil Dog.
It’s the ChatLazBot that worries me.
Doesn't it, though? The Word is the same yesterday, today and forever.
Only your true friends will tell you that you are full of crap when you really need to hear it.
Great post... You've been paying attention. Smart cities, transhumanism—it's just a matter of time for the useless eaters.
April 24, 2022:
Transhumanist Theorist Calls the AI-Unenhanced ‘Useless People’
“Transhumanism, boiled down to its bones, is pure eugenics. It calls itself ‘H+,’ for more or better than human. Which, of course, is what eugenics is all about. Alarmingly, transhumanist values are being embraced at the highest strata of society, including in Big Tech, in universities, and among the Davos crowd of globalist would-be technocrats. That being so, it is worth listening in to what they are saying under the theory that forewarned is forearmed…”
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