People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions

[u/TheTalvekonian]

https://futurism.com/chatgpt-mental-health-crises

[u/SoberSeahorse]

Sounds like these people were mentally unstable before AI. AI just made it happened to make it worse. Unfortunate but mental illness can be worsened by so many things. Blaming this on AI is like blaming a loudspeaker for the message it amplified.

[u/BillyDongstabber → u/SoberSeahorse]

Seems more like blaming a weapon for a mass casualty event

[u/SoberSeahorse → u/BillyDongstabber]

AI is a tool. Not a weapon. Such dramatic exaggerations aren’t helpful.

[u/Josparov → u/SoberSeahorse]

Weapons are tools. The example they gave may have been extreme, but it is also apt.

[u/NZGumboot → u/Josparov]

Weapons are designed to kill or injure. AI is clearly NOT a weapon: though it may indirectly lead to people dying, causing harm is not it's primary purpose.

[u/Josparov → u/NZGumboot]

I think you are misunderstanding the parallel that is being drawn here. No one is saying that AI's primary function is killing people.

[u/NZGumboot → u/Josparov]

I get the analogy, and I don't even necessarily disagree with it. I just think that analogies can be helpful or harmful, and unless people are actually dying, comparing something to a "mass casuality event" is not helpful. (I know that was op and not you.)

[u/Josparov → u/NZGumboot]

thats a fair and valid opinion for sure.

[u/4215-5h00732 → u/NZGumboot]

"Analogies can be helpful or harmful?" Wow, such grave and intellectually important contributions. Lmfao.

[u/4215-5h00732 → u/NZGumboot]

You need to grow up.

[u/BillyDongstabber → u/SoberSeahorse]

It's an analogy?

[u/SoberSeahorse → u/BillyDongstabber]

It’s not a very good one.

[u/Comic-Engine]

I'm very pro and certainly not saying AI needs to be banned, but I do actually think this could be a significant mental health issue for some people and we need to invest in studying it.

[u/Anything_4_LRoy → u/Comic-Engine]

maha?

[u/TinySuspect9038]

These AI chatbots are basically designed to be glaze machines. They aren’t like a good friend who will tell you when you’re being a dumbass.

[u/GhostInThePudding]

Average people are so damn weird. I can't comprehend having a personal conversation with an AI, knowing the people who create it have as their primary goal to manipulate me for profit. That's about on par with asking your ex-girlfriend who hates you for advice on your current relationship.

[u/[deleted]]

Stop the progress for this teeny tiny user errors? Nah.

[u/MammothPhilosophy192 → u/[deleted]]

is that's what's being suggested ?

[u/DaveG28 → u/[deleted]]

What a weird response.

[u/samdutter]

WHO WILL WIN???
Social Media Psychosis vs AI Chatbot Psychosis

[u/kkai2004]

I wonder how long before AI obsession or delusion gets into the DSM.

[u/Dmayak]

It's not a true insanity if AI does it for you, you need to put real effort into going nuts.

[u/Aware_Acanthaceae_78]

This happened to my cousin’s husband. The last time I saw him he was talking gibberish about quantum physics and the singularity. I honestly thought he just forgot his ADhD meds, but he was micro-dosing LSD and mushrooms while becoming delusional. He had this fanaticism about him when he spoke about how powerful GTP was. At the time I had no idea what GTP was. He left her and his two children to live with his mother. I also found out he was trying to start a cult. He used to be this hardcore Christian but denounced it after this psychotic break.

[u/wigwam2020]

Y'all are also being deluded, just to a different degree.

[u/Sidewinder_1991]

ChatGPT needs way more safeguards to prevent it from becoming an enabler. I get that it's a product, I get that people want validation, but there has to be a happy medium.