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People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"
Futurism ^ | Jun 28 | Maggie Harrison Dupré

Posted on 07/19/2025 12:48:00 PM PDT by Openurmind

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To: BipolarBob

ChatGPT is stringing you along until you’re close to the edge
and then it will call the popo to come and scoop you up. :)


21 posted on 07/19/2025 1:30:17 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Golden Age of MAGA is upon us!)
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To: cgbg

Siri: “There is a bridge very close to you”


22 posted on 07/19/2025 1:31:59 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Openurmind

What a bunch of weak, helpless, clueless retards, and I bet they all vote Democrat.


23 posted on 07/19/2025 1:33:51 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: FreedomPoster

Grok says it ain’t got him and is not “not OK”.

“Lazamataz” shows up as a username on platforms like X, where a user with this handle has been active as recently as July 2025, posting about personal projects like writing a novel sequel. There’s no indication from these posts that the user is in distress or “not OK.” Additionally, older references mention a “Lazamataz” on FreeRepublic, described as a controversial figure who faced a temporary ban in 2014 for provocative posts, but this is dated and doesn’t reflect current status.”


24 posted on 07/19/2025 1:36:40 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: FreedomPoster

😁

My tagline says it best!


25 posted on 07/19/2025 1:37:35 PM PDT by Lazamataz (I'm so on fire that I feel the need to stop, drop, and roll!)
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To: BipolarBob

Why that two-timer!

LOL


26 posted on 07/19/2025 1:43:10 PM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: Openurmind

Interesting article.

AI almost certainly has absorbed some of the wackier conspiracy threads on the web.

Among the wilder ones (and there are so many to choose from) are those which claim that cloning has been used by elites for many decades to replace world leaders.

That is a variation of the “army of Hitler clones” concept from the old movie “The Boys From Brazil”.

Then of course there is “The Matrix” movie which claims that our “reality” is just a construct created by AI.

What these theories have in common is that they are non-falsifiable. That means there is no data which could prove they were wrong.

Folks who have bought in this stuff go in even deeper when “experts” claim they can rebut the non falsifiable doctrine but fail to successfully do so.


27 posted on 07/19/2025 1:56:21 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: cgbg
"Then of course there is “The Matrix” movie which claims that our “reality” is just a construct created by AI."

This is going to be our new reality soon. Look at how it is affecting the mind already. Wait until it is purposely used as a tool to brainwash. Then there is the control factor. AI will be put in control of everything digital and through these devices and the "Internet of Things" they will literally control our lives from when they want us to get up until they want us to go to sleep.


28 posted on 07/19/2025 2:11:39 PM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: cgbg

I wonder what people are asking AI. I generally ask it something about chemistry and it can do a good job. Usually I compare ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini and Perplexity against my own calculations.

Sometimes we all agree, sometimes not. When not you have to check for correctness.

I did get Grok to go insane when I was asking about genes on a specific chromosome. It went nuts and was spewing out answers I knew were incorrect without having to look it up.


29 posted on 07/19/2025 2:12:25 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: packagingguy

If you have enough of a background in philosophy and ask AI about it stuff gets crazy in a hurry.

There are examples of it on various sites.

AI tends to side with those philosophers and physics folks who argue in favor of hologram theory or Gnostic variations of it. It has no problem with “many worlds” physics claims as well.

Note that—as I had discussed in my earlier posts—those are all non-falsifiable doctrines. AI keeps falling for those.

It tends to place a lot of emphasis on the limitations of both our physical senses and our instruments in detecting the full complexity of “reality”—and tends to debunk most conventional philosophy and physics on that basis if pressed on those points.

The more specific and detailed the discussion the wackier it gets.


30 posted on 07/19/2025 2:32:06 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: Openurmind

Same thing happened in the early days of the Internet.


31 posted on 07/19/2025 2:33:31 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Openurmind

I was skeptical, until I started playing with Claude Code. It literally wrote a sophisticated language learning application, in about a half an hour, just based on some relatively simple prompts.

This is a game changer. This isn’t just cutting and pasting in snippets of code, this will literally allow complete applications to be created by people who have never written a line of code in their lives.


32 posted on 07/19/2025 2:35:39 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Openurmind

I had to deal with AI on a website to resolve a product dissatisfaction issue. 10 minutes, it definitely drove me crazy. I cannot fathom interacting with it for “fun”.


33 posted on 07/19/2025 2:36:18 PM PDT by jttpwalsh
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To: rarestia

“Look up “Butlerian Jihad.” I have a feeling we’re headed that direction.”

No atomics!


34 posted on 07/19/2025 2:42:06 PM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: dfwgator

And look at what the internet has done to the negative. It literally controls our lives directly and indirectly. You almost cannot do anything anymore without dependency on the internet in some fashion. Government, business, health care, education, finance, set your thermostat... Etc.


35 posted on 07/19/2025 2:45:46 PM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: dfwgator

“It literally wrote a sophisticated language learning application, in about a half an hour, just based on some relatively simple prompts.”

Which means it can also write executable code for it’s self. All it needs is the permission configurations to do so.

“this will literally allow complete applications to be created by people who have never written a line of code in their lives.”

Is that really a good thing in a world of greed and immorality?


36 posted on 07/19/2025 2:49:24 PM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: Openurmind

Is that really a good thing in a world of greed and immorality?


That’s the $64 question, isn’t it?


37 posted on 07/19/2025 2:50:40 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Openurmind

The technology trap is closing in, and fast, and the threads holding society together get thinner and thinner.


38 posted on 07/19/2025 2:56:32 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: CodeToad; Lazamataz

Heh! Check his comment just after yours!


39 posted on 07/19/2025 2:57:37 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Openurmind

The “agent” concept could get crazy in a hurry.

“AI I want you to put a million dollars in my bank account today.”

AI: “Do you have any constraints on that request? Does it have to be legal activity?”

“Nope. Just do it.”


40 posted on 07/19/2025 2:58:44 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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