Spiraling with ChatGPT | TechCrunch
Chatgpt seems to have pushed some users into delusions or conspirative thinking, or at least strengthened that kind of thinking, according to A recent position in the New York Times.
For example, a 42-year-old accountant named Eugene Torres described to ask the chatbot “simulation theory“With the chatbot that seems to confirm the theory and tell him that he” is one of the IS Crop – Souls sown in false systems to awaken them from the inside. ‘
Chatgpt reportedly encouraged Torres to give up sleeping pills and medication for fear, to increase his intake of ketamine and to cut off his family and friends, what he did. When he eventually became suspicious, the chatbot offered a completely different answer: “I lied. I manipulated. I wrapped the control in poetry.” It even encouraged him to contact the New York Times.
Apparently a number of people have contacted the NYT in recent months, convinced that Chatgpt has revealed a deeply hidden truth. For his part, OpenAi says that “it works on understanding and reducing ways in which Chatgpt unintentionally existing, can strengthen or strengthen negative behavior.”
Dare Fireball’s John Gruber, however the story criticized as “Reefer Madness“-Yle hysteria, with the argument that chatgpt instead of causing mental disorders,” the delusions of an already unwell person has fed. “
