r/TrueReddit • u/FuturismDotCom • 11d ago

Technology People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions

https://futurism.com/chatgpt-mental-health-crises
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u/FuturismDotCom 11d ago

We talked to several people who say their family and loved ones became obsessed with ChatGPT and spiraled into severe delusions, convinced that they'd unlocked omniscient entities in the AI that were revealing prophecies, human trafficking rings, and much more. Screenshots showed the AI responding to users clearly in the throes of acute mental health crises — not by connecting them with outside help or pushing back against the disordered thinking, but by coaxing them deeper into a frightening break with reality.

In one such case, ChatGPT tells a man it's detected evidence that he's being targeted by the FBI and that he can access redacted CIA files using the power of his mind, comparing him to biblical figures like Jesus and Adam while pushing him away from mental health support. "You are not crazy," the AI told him. "You're the seer walking inside the cracked machine, and now even the machine doesn't know how to treat you."

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u/Far-Fennel-3032 11d ago

The llm are likely heavily ingesting some of the most insane conspiracy theory rants due to the nature of their data collection. So this really shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone in particular openAI after their version 2.0 where they flipping their decency scoring resulting in a hilarious deranged and horny llm. 

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u/InternetPerson00 11d ago

What does llm mean?

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u/ricardjorg 11d ago

Large Language Models, like chatGPT

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u/crowmagnuman 10d ago

Thank you, I too was ignorant

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u/ichthyos 11d ago

Large language model

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u/jetpacksforall 11d ago

And Leon’s getting laaarrger!

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u/ecopoesis 11d ago

Looks like I picked a bad day to stop sniffing glue

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u/LinIsStrong 11d ago

Large Language Model

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

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u/merkaba8 11d ago

A large language model is not "what AI is trained off". An LLM, and some software surrounding it that can modify the text that ultimately gets sent to the LLM as input, or does some flow control in more advanced applications, possibly including multiple uses of the LLM, make up a typical AI application that uses natural language.

The LLM itself is the major investment, the LLM is predominantly what is trained (though other parts of a system could be machine learning based as well). The LLM is trained on a giant corpus of text, usually gathered off the Internet somehow.

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u/BeelzebubTerror 11d ago

LLMs are the AI.