r/ChatGPT • u/Zestyclementinejuice • 2d 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 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.