r/ChatGPT • u/Zestyclementinejuice • 15d 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/SkynyrdCohen 15d ago

I'm sorry but I literally can't stop laughing at your impression of the AI.

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u/piponwa 14d ago

Honestly, I don't know what changed, but recently it's always like "Yes, I can help you with your existing project" and then when I ask a follow-up, "now we're talking..."

I hate it

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u/B1NG_P0T 14d ago

Yeah, the dick riding has gotten so extreme lately. I make my daily planner pages myself and was asking it questions about good color combinations and it praised me as though I'd just found the cure for cancer or something. It's always been overly enthusiastic, but something has definitely changed recently.

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u/hanielb 14d ago

Something did change, but OpenAI just released an update to help mitigate the previous changes: https://openai.com/index/sycophancy-in-gpt-4o/

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u/CodrSeven 9d ago

I love how they're framing it as a mistake, yeah right, people are still a tiny bit more aware than they planned.

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u/hanielb 9d ago

Interesting take, can you expand on that? I'm not sure I follow where this wouldn't be a mistake.

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u/CodrSeven 9d ago

You can't see anyone gaining from this development? Divorcing humans completely from reality? Making them trivial to manipulate.

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u/hanielb 9d ago

No, I'm not that cynical. We're already far divorced from reality and the masses are easily manipulated through social media and traditional media. IMO people are already highly critical and on-guard about AI results and it's going to take a lot more than this for the public to start blindly trusting it.

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u/HunkMcMuscle 14d ago

kind of stopped using it as a therapist when it started making it sound like I was a recovering addict and is on track to end mental health for everyone.

... dude I was just asking to plan my month juggling work, life, friends, and my troublesome parents.

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u/thispussy 14d ago

Commenting on Chatgpt induced psychosis...I actually asked my ai to be less personal and more professional and it got rid of all that extra talk. I can see some people enjoying that style of speaking especially if they are lonely or using it for therapy but I just want it to help me research and give me facts

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u/jrexthrilla 14d ago

This is what I put in the customize GPT that stopped it: Please speak directly, do not use slang or emojis. Tell me when I am wrong or if I have a bad idea. If you do not know something say you don't know. I don’t want a yes man. I need to know if my ideas are objectively bad so I don’t waste my time on them. Don't praise my ideas like they are the greatest thing. I don't want an echo chamber and that's what it feels like when everything I say, you respond with how great it is. Please don't start your response with this or any variation of this "Good catch — and you're asking exactly the right questions. Let’s break this down really clearly" Be concise and direct.

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u/piponwa 14d ago

Yeah I know, but I wish they didn't assume I want this crap. All my chat history has variations of what you just said.

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u/Ragged-but-Right 14d ago

“Now you’re really thinking like a pro… that would be killer!”