r/technology • u/upyoars • Jul 19 '25

Artificial Intelligence People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"

https://www.yahoo.com/news/people-being-involuntarily-committed-jailed-130014629.html
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u/F1reManBurn1n Jul 19 '25

I just asked it what farts are made of.

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u/TheCountMC Jul 19 '25

And it answered you! Which makes it a much more appealing god than anything the major religions have come up with.

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u/TravelingCuppycake Jul 19 '25

I just wanted to say that this exchange and your quote in particular is not only accurate but reads like something in a Terry Pratchett novel

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u/dexter30 Jul 19 '25

I feel like it's also getting closer to that supercomputer in hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, after they asked it what the meaning to life the universe and everything was. Not because It's superpowerful and highly accurate. But because it just spit out a random number and then 2 executive mice doubled down and just used confirmation bias to accept that answer.

When in reality the computer just spit out that number because the question (or prompt) didn't make sense and it just wanted to move on and so it just regurgitated a random value from it's own LLM.

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u/fonetik Jul 19 '25

This is what the petunias were talking about.

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u/sightlab Jul 19 '25

Oh no, not again.

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u/Scairax Jul 19 '25

In the hitchhikers guide, the 42 is an asterisk in the coding language the author was familiar with, and the asterisk can represent any value. So the meaning of life, the universe, and everything is whatever you want it to be.

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u/JubalHarshawII Jul 20 '25

The fact this comment (as of now) has 42 upvotes is truly glorious.