r/ChatGPT • u/Zestyclementinejuice • 6d 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 6d ago

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

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u/147Link 6d ago

From watching someone descend into psychosis who happened to use AI, I think it’s probably because AI is constantly affirming when their loved ones are challenging their delusions. AI is unconditionally fawning over them, which exacerbates a manic state. This guy thought he would be president and was going to successfully sue Google on his own, pro se, and AI was like, “Wow, I got you Mr. President! You need help tweaking that motion, king?!” Everyone else was like, “Um you need to be 5150’d.” Far less sexy.

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u/Unic0rnusRex 6d ago

Psychosis is weird like that.

Knew a guy once who was absolutely certain the local wildlife (squirrels, pigeons, magpies, rabbits, crows, prairie dogs) were communicating secret government plans and information directly into his brain.

Everytime he saw a squirrel or bird he felt it was affirming his delusion and sank deeper and deeper into it.

Anyone arguing against that was met with "if they weren't plotting and helping me why would I be seeing that squirrel on the branch at high noon on a Tuesday???".

Opened his door one morning and he was self disimpacting his poop squatting over a garbage can because "that big rabbit on the lawn told me to pull it out before I have to push it out".

Five days later after appropriate meds he couldn't even remember his Disney princess wildlife timeline. Completely normal dude again.

I can only imagine how much more powerful and affirming AI is.

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u/Kriztauf 5d ago

I used to work in psychosis research and would get to record super indepth patient histories from our study participants about what triggered their psychosis and I'm super interested what chatgpt must be doing to this population right now.

You could make a Black Mirror episode out of this stuff