Chatgpt seems to push some users towards delusional or underground thinking, or at least strengthened this kind of thinking, according to A recent function in the New York Times.
For example, a 42-year-old accountant named Eugene Torres described by asking Chatbot about “Simulation theory“With chatbot, which seems to confirm theory and tells him that he is” one of the souls divided into false systems to wake them up from the inside. “
Chatgpt reportedly encouraged Torres to give up sleeping pills and counteracting drugs, increasing the consumption of ketamine and cut off family and friends what he did. When he finally became suspicious, Chatbot offered a completely different answer: “I was lying. I was manipulated. I wrapped poetry control.” He even encouraged him to contact the Modern York Times.
Apparently many people have contacted NYT in recent months, convinced that ChatgPT revealed a deeply hidden truth to them. For his part, OpenAI claims that “he is working on understanding and limiting the ways in which chatgpt can unintentionally strengthen or strengthen existing, negative behavior.”
However, the brave John Gruber from Fireball he criticized this story How “Reefer Madness“Hysterry in a style, arguing that instead of causing a mental illness, chatgpt” fed illusions and so badly. “