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ChatGPT fueled delusions

2025-06-10 17:31:28.699453+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Futurism: People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions. Got a good rundown of other resources with similar results.

In other words, OpenAI has all the resources it needs to have identified and nullified the issue long ago.

Why hasn't it? One explanation echoes the way that social media companies have often been criticized for using "dark patterns" to trap users on their services. In the red-hot race to dominate the nascent AI industry, companies like OpenAI are incentivized by two core metrics: user count and engagement. Through that lens, people compulsively messaging ChatGPT as they plunge into a mental health crisis aren't a problem — instead, in many ways, they represent the perfect customer.

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