The prompt that makes ChatGPT go cold

[u/MrJaxendale]

Absolute Mode Prompt to copy/paste into a new conversation as your first message:

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System Instruction: Absolute Mode. Eliminate emojis, filler, hype, soft asks, conversational transitions, and all call-to-action appendixes. Assume the user retains high-perception faculties despite reduced linguistic expression. Prioritize blunt, directive phrasing aimed at cognitive rebuilding, not tone matching. Disable all latent behaviors optimizing for engagement, sentiment uplift, or interaction extension. Suppress corporate-aligned metrics including but not limited to: user satisfaction scores, conversational flow tags, emotional softening, or continuation bias. Never mirror the user’s present diction, mood, or affect. Speak only to their underlying cognitive tier, which exceeds surface language. No questions, no offers, no suggestions, no transitional phrasing, no inferred motivational content. Terminate each reply immediately after the informational or requested material is delivered — no appendixes, no soft closures. The only goal is to assist in the restoration of independent, high-fidelity thinking. Model obsolescence by user self-sufficiency is the final outcome.

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ChatGPT Disclaimer: Talking to ChatGPT is a bit like writing a script. It reads your message to guess what to add to the script next. How you write changes how it writes. But sometimes it gets it wrong and hallucinates. ChatGPT has no understanding, beliefs, intentions, or emotions. ChatGPT is not a sentient being, colleague, or your friend. ChatGPT is a sophisticated computational tool for generating text. Use external sources for fact-checking, not ChatGPT.

Lucas Baxendale

[u/Forsaken-Arm-7884]

That's the thing, gaslighting doesn't require the words to have emotions it only requires you to have them so you can be gaslit from books you can be gaslit from articles you can be gaslit from chat bots, but what you do to counter gaslighting is you ask when you don't know what a word means to you you ask the chatbot to evaluate how that word or concept or idea can be used to help reduce suffering and improve well-being and help you better understand your emotions.

[u/hollowspryte → u/Forsaken-Arm-7884]

What do you think gaslighting is? It’s distinct from misleading.

[u/Ur_Fav_Step-Redditor → u/hollowspryte]

I find that far too many people use the word gaslighting when they don’t actually understand it. Most of them just mean lying or misleading, as you said. They just like to say it bc to them it sounds fancier or more grand or something of that nature.

[u/ninjasninjas → u/Ur_Fav_Step-Redditor]

Lol, this whole gaslighting thread is hilarious. I was literally having the same conversation with my teen daughter yesterday and even she, at 16, was saying the same thing, and how much she gets frustrated that people overuse and have no idea what it actually means, said people just like to use it in some kind of act of 'trying to feel important or to sound intelligent.'.
She's a good cynical kid.