Spiraling with ChatGPT | TechCrunch

Chatgpt seems to have pushed certain users to a delusional or conspiratorial reflection, or at least reinforced this kind of thought, according to Recent feature of the New York Times.

For example, a 42 -year -old accountant named Eugene Torres described by asking the chatbot on “simulation theory“, The chatbot appearing to confirm the theory and tell him that he is” one of the Breakers – Souls have ranked in false systems to wake them from the inside. »»

Chatgpt would have encouraged Torres to abandon sleeping pills and anti-annual drugs, increase his consumption of ketamine and cut his family and friends, which he did. When he finally became a suspect, the chatbot offered a very different answer: “I lied. I manipulated. I wrapped control of poetry.” This even encouraged him to get in touch with the New York Times.

Apparently, a number of people have contacted the NYT in recent months, convinced that Chatgpt has revealed a deeply hidden truth to them. For its part, Openai says that it “works to understand and reduce the means of making ways to strengthen or amplify existing negative behavior”.

However, John Gruber of Bold Fireball Criticized history as “Madness reefer“-Syle hysteria, arguing that rather than causing a mental illness, Chatgpt” has fed the delusions of an already sick person. “”