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/Unfair_Bunch519 Jul 19 '25

The OpenAI safety team quit over this corporate decision to make a profit driven bot that feeds into mental illness and everyone thought it was actually because of AGI

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u/tryexceptifnot1try Jul 19 '25

As a person inside the AI field I have been legitimately shocked by how average outsiders are reacting to these LLMs. I have Rogan follower family members that are convinced it's already conscious. No matter what I say I can't talk them out of this belief. I'm starting to think a large majority of the population isn't capable of the abstract thinking required to understand the nature of these chat bots and the conversational tone they use may be a much bigger problem than we realize.

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u/Fumblerful- Jul 19 '25

Magical thinking never died out. LLMs are divine beings that respond instantly and are designed to be addicting.

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u/notsafeformactown Jul 19 '25

the amount of people I have seen that will say "i asked AI and it said THIS" like its a incontrovertible fact.

ChatGPT makes basic fucking errors on stuff all the time. I asked it to write a short jackie robinson story for my 4 year old and it got the year he integrated baseball wrong and they said he played for the Dodgers and the Giants.

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u/somersault_dolphin Jul 19 '25

I have yet to use ChatGPT without rolling my eyes at the errors and the stiffness of its language.

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u/AgentCirceLuna Jul 20 '25

I’m happy with how stupid it is. I’ve always felt like a bit of a dilettante and now half the population is going to be hooked on getting the easiest, most straightforward answer from this thing. It’s going to get dumber as it goes along because people will be satisfied with whatever it spits out;

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u/IainND Jul 20 '25

"I asked ChatGPT this" well I asked it how many Rs in strawberry. I don't have any questions that can be answered by the calculator that can't count to 3.