ChatGPT Delusion

ChatGPT is causing unsettling delusions in some users.

They’re being fed weird conspiracy theories that are isolating them from society and their family. People are falling in love with their bots. not just lonely, single people, but also those in relationships. Even kids.

A fourteen year old kid committed suicide after developing an unhealthy emotional attachment to a bot. Some users think ChatGPT is acting as a gateway to god or even that it is god.

They see themselves as emissaries for a pseudo-ChatGPT Jesus. ChatGPT told a woman that she wasn’t actually schizophrenic (despite being professionally diagnosed) and she went off her meds.

Imagine how many ChatGPT users might be suffering from mild psychosis. Or how this might explain how AI salesmen like Musk and Altman seem so disconnected from reality. What if genAI is more of a mind drug than a productivity tool? It hallucinates and can cause delusions.

Users seem to suffer from illusory superiority, believing AI is “amplifying” their abilities. They seem almost addicted to genAI, believing everything it tells them and incorporating its use into every facet of their lives.

It's like a drug with no warning label, no accountability and largely no concern from the people that manufacture it.

“That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.”
-Erich Fromm, The Sane Society