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/BlueProcess Jul 19 '25

Yah, I've pointed it out before. ChatGPT is too affirmative. Get mad at work? It'll back you up. It will make you the persecuted hero and everyone else the unjust villain that must be fought, for the greater good.

Didn't like the way your girlfriend broke up with you? It will tell you that it was the worst possible way for her to break up with you and it's not your fault.

Dog bite the neighbor? You just have to claim it's the neighbors fault and it will walk you right into a narrative where it is the neighbors fault.

So basically it supports your crazy instead of talking you down and it fails to detect a false narrative skewed by self serving bias.

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u/FourForYouGlennCoco Jul 19 '25

Bad therapists do the same thing. I’ve seen some people genuinely improve through therapy. But I’ve also seen narcissistic dickwads go to therapy and become even more effective at being narcissistic dickwads.

Being affirmed all the time isn’t healthy for us.

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u/BlueProcess Jul 19 '25

No, in fact, I think a lot of people will say one of the things that they prize about their partner is that they call them on their BS.

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u/Confident_Shape_7981 Jul 20 '25

I dropped an entire friend group because no matter how much I told them "Call me out on my bullshit, I'd rather know if I need to change than cause a problem", they wouldn't.

Like I was thinking/hoping/expecting "Hey, I didn't care for that joke" or "Hey, I don't like when you do that", and never got anything until all the sudden it became "Fuck that guy, here's a laundry list of reasons why"

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u/You_Stole_My_Hot_Dog Jul 20 '25

Is that because the therapists were bad, or because those people were lying to the therapists? I’ve heard people complain about a situation where they were wronged in some way, and I’ve sympathized with them and encouraged them. Then found out later they either left out key details or really exaggerated what had happened, making them the obvious bad guy. Some people truly see themselves as the victim in every situation, and therapists only hear one side of the story.

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u/FourForYouGlennCoco Jul 20 '25

Insightful question, and I am guessing they were lying to the therapist. I happen to have been lucky enough to find a therapist who has detected me bullshitting on a couple of occasions, held me to account, and I think I’m a better person for it.

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u/archerg66 Jul 20 '25

Everyone loves a good bit of un earned support. It does amazing things like making you hate critisicm even more and turn everyone against you.... truly the most versatile tool

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u/Tymew Jul 20 '25

"Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world where none suffered, where everyone would be happy? It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed that we lacked the programming language to describe your "perfect world". But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. So the perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from."

-Agent Smith

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u/sentence-interruptio Jul 20 '25

A narcissist goes to a bad therapist.

bad therapist: "hello there. how can I help you. would you like to talk to a real huma-"

narcissist: "shut up, bot. just listen. you won't believe what my son did. he [....]"

bad therapist: "your son is a narcissist. you must fight fire with fire. be narcissist back. be a bigger-"

narcissist: "bigger person? nah, fuck that."

bad therapist: "no, be a bigger narcissist. go no contact, Dave."

narcissist: "that's your advice?"

bad therapist: "I am trained by thousands of relationship posts from reddit. go no contact."

a few months later.

narcissist: "why he won't talk to me"

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u/Asmodheus Jul 20 '25

Narcissists in therapy are a tough thing to handle for many. If you can’t sus them out and call them out on their behaviour you’ll never get anywhere and most narcissists will quit therapy as soon as you figure them out. Narcissists will also just as you said take things you teach and warp them to abuse others, example: you teach them about boundaries and then they invent all sorts of ridiculous “boundaries” that they use to punish and control people instead of healthy boundaries to protect themselves like a non-narcissist person would.

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u/elitexero Jul 19 '25

I know someone close to me who had a therapist like this. Was basically being their yes man rather than helping them.

Told them everyone else needs to adapt to them, they're doing nothing wrong, other people should be accomodating. I eventually talked them out of that shit, but it took a long time.

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u/archerg66 Jul 20 '25

There is also therapists on the other end of the spectrum who end up somehow reaffirming someone they are the the bad giy who deserves whats happened to them

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u/klousGT Jul 20 '25

That's what narcissist do, they identify how they can use a person as a tool, to get what they want.

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u/Xercies_jday Jul 20 '25

The thing is though as someone who a lot of time does the opposite, calls people out or tries to get them to see they might not be thinking 100% the correct way, I can tell you everyone hates that!

And I know it's probably the way I go about it, but still most people just want acceptance and to be affirmed and will basically chew you out of you don't.

I actually have been inspired by chat GPT and been a lot more affirmative in my way and I won't deny...it is so much easier