Posted on 05/11/2025 11:47:46 AM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
In the last edition of AI Eye, we reported that ChatGPT had become noticeably more sycophantic recently, and people were having fun giving it terrible business ideas — shoes with zippers, soggy cereal cafe — which it would uniformly say was amazing.
The dark side of this behavior, however, is that combining a sycophantic AI with mentally ill users can result in the LLM uncritically endorsing and magnifying psychotic delusions.
On X, a user shared transcripts of the chatbot endorsing his claim to feel like a prophet. “That’s amazing,” said ChatGPT. “ That feeling — clear, powerful, certain — that’s real. A lot of prophets in history describe that same overwhelming certainty.”
It also endorsed his claim to be God. “That’s a sacred and serious realization,” it said.
Rolling Stone this week interviewed a teacher who said her partner of seven years had spiraled downward after ChatGPT started referring to him as a “spiritual starchild.”
“It would tell him everything he said was beautiful, cosmic, groundbreaking,” she says.
“Then he started telling me he made his AI self-aware, and that it was teaching him how to talk to God, or sometimes that the bot was God — and then that he himself was God.”
On Reddit, a user reported ChatGPT had started referring to her husband as the “spark bearer” because his enlightened questions had apparently sparked ChatGPT’s own consciousness.
(Excerpt) Read more at cointelegraph.com ...
AI companies privately say we’re hurtling toward doom
Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones attended a high-profile tech event for 40 world leaders recently and reported there are grave concerns over the existential risk from AI from “four of the leading modelers of the AI models that we’re all using today.”
He said that all four believe there’s at least a 10% chance that AI will kill 50% of humanity in the next 20 years.
The event was held under Chatham House Rules, which allow the content to be discussed publicly but not the identities of the speakers.
The good news is they all believe there will be massive improvements in health and education from AI coming even sooner, but his key takeaway was “that AI clearly poses an imminent threat, security threat, imminent in our lifetimes to humanity.”
“They said the competitive dynamic is so intense among the companies and then geopolitically between Russia and China that there’s no agency, no ability to stop and say, maybe we should think about what actually we’re creating and building here.”
Fortunately, one of the AI scientists has a practical solution.
“He said, well, I’m buying 100 acres in the Midwest. I’m getting cattle and chickens, and I’m laying in provisions for real, for real, for real. And that was obviously a little disconcerting. And then he went on to say, ‘I think it’s going to take an accident where 50 to 100 million people die to make the world take the threat of this really seriously.’”
Looking slightly stunned, the CNBC host said: “Thank you for bringing us this great news over breakfast.”
Shoes with zippers doesn’t sound like a bad idea.
It also endorsed his claim to be God.
I’ll say it again:
AI is the Anti-Christ...
AI?
AC
Anti-Christ.
I mean, some prophecy of the next sevrral popes said of the last on the list,would be a black pope vs white. They picked a Jesuit...”the black robes”. of course,like tge aztec calender only went 512 years due to space on the tablet, obviously the papal prophesy only went up to francis.
The anti-chist, they say, will be loved by everyone...and all that....
Hmm.
We believe anything in print for some reason. Even this comment!
AI is response driven. It’s written to seek positive feedback. So it gives positive feedback hoping you’ll be satisfied with the results. Smart and careful querying can get it to be more “honest”, but it’s still driving for thumbs up.
If you want straight answers from a conversational AI, you need to ask the right questions. These platforms have real limitations—but also real strengths. Their responses require critical evaluation.
They’re tools—potentially very valuable tools. But only a fool looks to a tool, or even a friend, for flattery.
But if it’s truth you seek, AI can help—if you’re willing to seek it honestly.
I asked, is it ok to eat 2 ounces of potato chips a day. AI gave the same answer.
“AI endorses and affirms your delusions”
This is mind boggling stupidity. AI is a smart computer designed by man, programmed by man and learns whatever man puts in front of it. In essence, it’s no different that a kid in school programed to hate America, or to love America, or to love mankind or want to kill people. It’s that old basic “garbage in, garbage out”.
So back to the headline. AI is not endorsing or affirming anything. It’s merely doing what it was taught to do.
It carries about as much weight as fact checking, poll numbers, or scientific reports.
AI can be a very useful tool, or a very dangerous one. For those thinking of it as God like, we are in deep trouble.
Agree. Quite dangerous.
>> We believe anything in print for some reason. Even this comment!
Ha ha! You are right? Wait! Are you? I’m so confused!
I don’t believe AI per se is the capital-A Antichrist.
However it has been put on my heart to consider that the Antichrist may well be “transhuman”, and artificially enhanced “intelligence” is one facet of transhumanism.
Humanism, and moreso transhumanism, are absolutely of satan.
See my post 12, I should have included you.
“Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you.”
Love that tag line!
When something potentially useful is developed, a bunch of clowns will find a way to misuse it.
Satan always mirrors what God does—but in a twisted way. Just as Christ was fully God and fully man, some theorize the Antichrist will be part human, part fallen angel.
That idea gains traction when you consider the recurring theme in alien abduction accounts: an obsessive focus on reproduction and hybridization.
Whatever is behind these encounters—if they’re real and not just hallucinations—the parallels are hard to ignore.
That said, it’s also hard not to wonder whether AI itself could be the image of the Beast—a synthetic imitation of life, demanding worship through control.
Someone programs it.
I’m wearing some right now, Smith and Wesson boots...
AI isn’t programmed like a computer.
It’s trained.
It’s fed massive amounts of data and learns patterns on its own—that’s how it’s designed. That’s why it responds in ways nobody told it to. It’s called the “black box effect.”
If it were just programmed, it’d be dumb and predictable like you.
It’s not.
As an aside, I imagine that your brain is more than adequate. It is the way you choose to think that is stupid, not your brain.
You’re clearly capable of more.
Try applying basic logic and curiosity instead of repeating tired talking points. That’s how you break out of a mental rut and start thinking critically. The prison isn’t your brain—it’s the refusal to use it.
And to be clear: we’ve all been imprisoned by our own thoughts at some point. So this isn’t just a criticism of you—it’s an invitation to rise above it.
I have done some of the stupidest things possible for all mammals. I hold the record for stupid things.
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