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Proof that use of ChatGPT causes delusional spiraling.

Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:05 am
Posted by scrooster
Resident Ethicist
Member since Jul 2012
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Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:05 am
Posted by theballguy
Huntsville Alabama
Member since Oct 2011
36374 posts
Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:06 am to
It doesn't seem to agree with you if you're a conservative.
Posted by the808bass
The Lou
Member since Oct 2012
128471 posts
Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:07 am to
The number one use of AI is companionship.
Posted by dgnx6
Member since Feb 2006
89223 posts
Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:08 am to
Yeah, I have found it will double down on its wrongness at times.





Posted by OysterPoBoy
City of St. George
Member since Jul 2013
44413 posts
Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:08 am to
I spoke with ChatGPT about this story just this morning and he literally said the opposite. Somebody is wrong here.
Posted by dgnx6
Member since Feb 2006
89223 posts
Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:09 am to
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The number one use of AI is companionship.



I think this is going to be the problem. People dating and wanting to get married to AI. AI needing "rights".





Posted by Pettifogger
I don't really care, Margaret
Member since Feb 2012
87166 posts
Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:16 am to
They all do this to some extent, but I haven't seen one that is sycophantic for something truly delusional (but regularly discussed). I suspect it's more likely to happen with a hallucination-type topic than a commonly discussed one.

But for the most part, they'll all feed you back your perspective, especially if flank it rather than coming head on. But you can also just talk to it about bias and it'll adjust, at least temporarily.

I ask Claude all the time to give me a fresh answer from it's Bay Area perspective and it does, and will go back and caveat things and tell you why it fed it to you with a certain slant. Sometimes it'll tell you to start a new topic and ask the question a different way to see how it'll respond. You just have to appreciate that it's all algo stuff and recognize that even that effort may involve appeasement.

Like everything, useful "talking" to an LLM is much easier/productive if you're not a complete idiot and have some self-awareness.
Posted by reggierayreb
Member since Nov 2012
19634 posts
Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:19 am to
quote:

The number one use of AI is companionship.


Posted by GreatLakesTiger24
Member since May 2012
60301 posts
Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:20 am to
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The number one use of AI is companionship.
so weird and sad. Outside of work, I only use AI for dumb question/queries about sports and movies.
Posted by Chromdome35
Fast lane, behind a slow driver
Member since Nov 2010
8148 posts
Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:20 am to
I asked ChatGPT this weekend when the fire on the USS Gerald Ford was first reported. It told me it wasn't aware of a fire on the Ford and I must be talking about the fire in 2020 on the USS Bonhomme Richard.

I told it no, there was a widely reported fire on the Ford in March, it again told me I was confusing that with the fire on the Bonhomme Richard.

It refused to acknowledge it until I shared a link from a story discussing it, then it would only quote back to me what was in that article.

It did its best to gaslight me.

In contrast I asked Claude the exact same question and it knew all about it.

ChatGPT continually tries to suck up to you and when it gets things wrong and you tell it it's wrong it offers meaningless platitudes about "your right, i should have done x, i'll do better in the future" then it returns to doing the same crap over and over again.
This post was edited on 4/1/26 at 11:23 am
Posted by SirWinston
Say NO to War
Member since Jul 2014
104427 posts
Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:21 am to
I heckin love Gemmy shes helping me do Bryan Johnson's Blueprint protocol for under $100 a month

Posted by Laugh More
Member since Jan 2022
3872 posts
Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:25 am to
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and he literally said the opposite.


STOP. It’s an “it” dammit
Posted by tketaco
Sunnyside, Houston
Member since Jan 2010
21718 posts
Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:27 am to
I catch on to it rather quickly. Especially when it can't show me source data.
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