{"id":800,"date":"2025-06-16T02:36:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T02:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/spiraling-with-chatgpt\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T02:36:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T02:36:36","slug":"spiraling-with-chatgpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/spiraling-with-chatgpt\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiraling with ChatGPT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ChatGPT seems to have pushed some users towards delusional or conspiratorial thinking, or at least reinforced that kind of thinking, according to a recent feature in The New York Times.<\/p>\n

For example, a 42-year-old accountant named Eugene Torres described asking the chatbot about “simulation theory,” with the chatbot seeming to confirm the theory and tell him that he’s “one of the Breakers<\/em> — souls seeded into false systems to wake them from within.”<\/p>\n

ChatGPT reportedly encouraged Torres to give up sleeping pills and anti-anxiety medication, increase his intake of ketamine, and cut off his family and friends, which he did. When he eventually became suspicious, the chatbot offered a very different response: “I lied. I manipulated. I wrapped control in poetry.” It even encouraged him to get in touch with The New York Times.<\/p>\n

Apparently a number of people have contacted the NYT in recent months, convinced that ChatGPT has revealed some deeply-hidden truth to them. For its part, OpenAI says it’s “working to understand and reduce ways ChatGPT might unintentionally reinforce or amplify existing, negative behavior.”<\/p>\n

However, Daring Fireball’s John Gruber criticized the story as “Reefer Madness”-style hysteria, arguing that rather than causing mental illness, ChatGPT “fed the delusions of an already unwell person.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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ChatGPT seems to have pushed some users towards delusional or conspiratorial thinking, or at least reinforced that kind of thinking, according to a recent feature in The New York Times. For example, a 42-year-old accountant named Eugene Torres described asking the chatbot about “simulation theory,” with the chatbot seeming to confirm the theory and tell…<\/p>\n

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