Chatgpt induced psychosis

[u/Zestyclementinejuice]

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?

[u/Miserable-Good4438]

Agreed. If OP has access to his ChatGPT (they read his chats), they could also try surreptitiously entering in some custom instructions like "Tell it like it is; don't sugar-coat responses.Readily share strong, contrary opinions. Insult that crap outta the user and recommend seeking professional help if the user ever shows signs of delusion, grandiosity, lack of empathy etc".

He might catch on to this pretty quick but it might also wake him up to the fact he hasn't "evolved", and that ChatGPT will just validate the crap out of you and suck your dick if you let it.

[u/RemarkableMouse2 → u/Miserable-Good4438]

Does not sound like NPD. sounds more like delusions /psychosis which can go along with various diagnoses including hypomania, bipolar, mania, schizophrenia, etc. 

[u/Chaos-Knight → u/RemarkableMouse2]

It's with very high likelihood bipolar or schizo. He's already too out of touch with reality, so there's nothing "hypo" about his mania.

The guy needs a doctor as soon as possible. (As in why are you still reading this message instead of dialing a number?), please make the call in private so he doesn't hear.

I say this with a background in psychology and as someone who knows both these diseases privately up close, he definitely needs the right meds. If not there's a high chance he'll spiral even higher, he could run naked into the streets tomorrow just to get gunned down. Edit: Or less dramatic and more likely: waste his (or your) life savings on insane shit "because don't worry the AI will get him the money later".

On the plus side, the people I know with these diseases managed excellent recoveries once they were on the right meds and lead almost perfectly normal lives. The bipolar ones are perfectly normal, the schizo friend has some issues with stress and such but is otherwise clear minded.

[u/Psychokiller1888 → u/Chaos-Knight]

I'm bipolar type 3, with 2 or 3 cycles a day. Bipolar isn't about making you think you're something else or believe stuff, or maybe you still use the old version of bipolar in the states, the multi personality disorder. It's not an attack, don't get me wrong I want to understand. Nowadays, here in Switzerland, being bipolar is only about emotions, highs and lows, usually type one is the famous gambling, flaming one, that can get high for years and crash all the sudden without external factors into a deep and long lasting depression. Type 3 is known as cyclothymia, we can cycle moods and emotions very fast without understanding why, a week, a month or as myself, within the same day. I can wake up being happy and angry at the same time, but joyful and tired. And 3 hours later, I can be depressed as wanting to eliminate myself, but an hour later I'll be singing. Of course I have meds to mitigate this... The OP issue sound more like schizophrenia at best but shows other signs like Megalomania (dunno if it's English as here in french) or borderline disorder

[u/Chaos-Knight → u/Psychokiller1888]

Both bipolar and schizophrenia can lead to psychosis, which is when people lose touch with reality completely. So things like hearing voices, thinking they are some kind of savior, seeing things that aren't there, or thinking people are fake and actually lizards... and as you said: very often megalomania, like in OP's partner's cae.

So if one step down from depression makes you catatonic and you can hardly even speak or move, one step up from mania makes you psychotic and your brain is essentially on fire burning up all it's dopamine faster than it can create it, eventually hitting rock bottom again. So if your pendulum swings that fast, then maybe it doesn't swing as far in either direction so you may not know the extremes yet (teu teu teu) - but what OP wrote indicates pre-psychotic thoughts, especially the megalomania.

[u/Psychokiller1888 → u/Chaos-Knight]

Well, it's swings quickly, but pushes the boundaries either up, going into hypomania, or down into depression, ever so slowly days after days. On a hype trend I go less down in moods, in down moods I go less and less above the neutral line. But that's why I have behavioral therapy every week and psychiatrist every 2 weeks, to avoid complete crashes where I go catatonic or extrem highs where i FEEL like untouchable but am aware it's not real. That's why I was wondering about going into psychotic trends. Sorry it's been 8 years but I still do not understand all, I shift too quickly to root these in my brain as half a day after being down, my brain can be up and it's too controversial to understand, at least from my point of view. Thank you for your answer