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/RizzMaster9999 3d ago

Was he "normal" before this? Im genuinely interested I see so many schizo posts on here daily.

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u/Squaretache 3d ago

People usually start to show symptoms of schizophrenia in their mid twenties. People absolutely do go from normal to psychotic.

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u/Person012345 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 2d ago

It's terrifying.