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."
(Excerpt) Read more at futurism.com ...
Earlier this month, a team of Stanford researchers published a study that examined the ability of both commercial therapy chatbots and ChatGPT to respond in helpful and appropriate ways to situations in which users are suffering mental health crises. The paper found that all the chatbots, including the most up-to-date version of the language model that underpins ChatGPT, failed to consistently distinguish between users' delusions and reality, and were often unsuccessful at picking up on clear clues that a user might be at serious risk of self-harm or suicide.
Already fragile users who are uninformed about what AI actually is and how it is assembled—by profit-seeking flawed human beings—can more easily become obsessed. AI has no moral or ethical capacity in and of itself.
Cool! @ physically or @ virtually?
Our dark past can certainly be an ally. Thanks for reminding me of that.
You're correct. They'd have to come to FR to hear that.
There are at this same time also many contemporary cases of vulnerable women falling in "love" with online grifters and Nigerian scammers, sending them their life savings on flimsy promises of love and marriage. The great showman of the mid-19th century P.T. Barnum observed, "There's a sucker born every minute."
But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. —2 Timothy 3:1-7
If you are a moonbat.
If your mentality is teetering on the edge. If you are one loop away from going loppy, do not use ChatKBG and ChatGPT. And if you do use them, have your prescription chill pills close by.
I prefer to be driven nuts by the losers on this site.
I have yet to use chat gpt. I’m afraid of what it might say to me. We can’t look at it as a sentient being and I’m afraid that’s what’s happening.
Oh my god it’s even worse risk to society than Dungeons and Dragons or Rock and Roll music!
The question is not can chat gpt make you crazy.
The question is can a particular coding delivered to the user via electronic screen have an effect on behavior.
The answer is unequivocally yes.
Understandably, the deep state posters on this thread are all trying to downplay it.
The object, having no depth, is a Hologram, and whatever it says is probably false. BTW thanks for having each page complete, that’s very helpful.
To the kids who have had their every move criticized by strangers who do not give a flip about them and raised on on-line quizzes that tell them that their choice of side dish means they are prospective serial killers, they would take it seriously enough that it would freeze them up.
We keep the cubs off social media for a reason and it is not because we do not want them to have friends. We just prefer the real ones over the bored guy in NYC who wants to tell them that buying a pure bred puppy rather then getting Cujo 2 from a shelter means that they are horrible people.
Working with young people now days is strange. About 5% of them think they are God's Gift to humanity and about 80% are a pile of nerves that is sure they are going to die alone because no one will want to be around them. They are perfectly nice young people mind you. Helpful, considerate, polite and no confidence at all.
I have been teaching Sunday School for decades and something has gone seriously wrong. The kids are NOT all right.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
You seem to have all the bases covered.
If you are a doctor or attorney nowadays chances are at least one out of every seven of your clients is a lunatic insisting on some irrational notion that is contrary to your advice but reinforced after fishing for substantiation on chatgtp.
True. We did crack wise and you did hit on my girlfriend...
Wtf you talking about? You sound like a moron. Just STFU will you?”
It feeds on people’s delusions. Those that are mentally unbalanced slide into it a lot faster.
LOL!
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