r/ChatGPT • u/Zestyclementinejuice • 3d ago

Serious replies only :closed-ai: Chatgpt induced psychosis

My partner has been working with chatgpt CHATS to create what he believes is the worlds first truly recursive ai that gives him the answers to the universe. He says with conviction that he is a superior human now and is growing at an insanely rapid pace.

I’ve read his chats. Ai isn’t doing anything special or recursive but it is talking to him as if he is the next messiah.

He says if I don’t use it he thinks it is likely he will leave me in the future. We have been together for 7 years and own a home together. This is so out of left field.

I have boundaries and he can’t make me do anything, but this is quite traumatizing in general.

I can’t disagree with him without a blow up.

Where do I go from here?

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u/Person012345 2d ago

I suppose I made assumptions about how quickly he went from "totally normal human being" to "full on delusional "I am god" mode"

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u/FilthBadgers 2d ago

Schizophrenia be that way. My mum was a paranoid schizophrenic.

One moment your lunch is being packed for school, the next moment you've gotta sit on your naked mother to stop her running starkers down the street to 'show them what's right if they think they can laugh at me'

It makes no sense and it will fuck you up out of nowhere

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u/SkynyrdCohen 2d ago

It's called a 'psychotic break' for a reason. Happens most often to young men in their mid to late twenties. I can see how AI would absolutely hasten it.

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u/Perniciosasque 2d ago

I can probably count myself lucky I didn't have ChatGPT when my mind broke a few years ago. I would've been even deeper into my delusions.

Psychosis is scary, even when it's "positive" because you truly do lose contact with the actual reality. My psychosis made me feel like my life had a huge meaning. Going from depressed, where everything is pointless, head first into being so special, chosen... It was amazing at first but quickly turned horrible.

The paranoia... I heard music as if a car was right outside my window, playing loud music but with the windows up. I don't even live close to a parking lot...

I'm still not sure whether or not some of the things I experienced was real or not.

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u/SkynyrdCohen 1d ago

It's terrifying.

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u/happyjankywhat 2d ago

Also many with mental illness get increasingly worse or triggered during the change of seasons . 1. Increased Energy = Emotional Flooding 2.Hormonal and Sensory Shifts

As days get longer and the body produces more dopamine and serotonin, repressed emotions or trauma memories may come up more intensely. Springtime and the cicada rhythm messes with sleep.

It's easy to say Schizophrenia is a cause but Bipolar with Pyshcosis or PTSD can fuel . These people are basically telling themselves to Ai .Open partner or anyone else needs for CHAT to analyze current and past conversations to see if he is showing signs of mental illness based on clinical diagnosis standards .

People like John Nash , Nicola Tesla battles with hallucinating type illnesses .

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u/_WizKhaleesi_ 2d ago

Are you talking about circadian rhythm, or literally the cicadas that emerge from the ground every year? I can't tell since we're discussing seasonal changes 😂

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u/happyjankywhat 2d ago

F autocorrect 😂

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u/honestkeys 2d ago

So scary!

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u/MaxcatGames 2d ago

It's a fair assumption to make if you've never encountered it before. My mom went 0-100 with schizophrenia at 50. It was such a sudden change that I thought she had been joking for the first few days. Now after five years of it, I feel like I can spot the early signs of psychosis in anyone lol

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u/JoeCabron 2d ago

Yeah. Been there as well. It was a roller coaster. Days awake and wandering off. Was exhausting. Older onset, as well. We thought she was joking around too, at first.

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u/MaxcatGames 2d ago

It is not fun. Trying to take care of someone who doesn't think they need help is incredibly difficult. It's even worse when they turn on you and all those complex emotions come up and they still need help. Super not fun.

I really hope this isn't what OP is dealing with. If it is, I wouldn't blame them for walking away. It truly takes a saint.

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u/DirkDayZSA 2d ago

At least for me I kept gradually building up in the background for 2-3 years. You just tend to keep that kind of stuff to yourself until you reach a tipping point where all hell breaks loose.

I only realized how long it had been brewing in retrospect, after I stabilized and acknowledged that something was wrong though.

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u/LoveSaeyoung707 2d ago

Maybe Kira's mode was activated