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ChatGPT related mental health crisis

2025-07-19 17:15:37.781066+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Futurism: A Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say. And, no, this isn't the fact that he's invested in OpenAI, which in itself seems evidence of mental health crisis, this is about a rambling weird video post to Twitter that either seems to be bizarre performance art: or the sort of break that ChatGPT interactions seem to amplify, as in Stanford Research Finds That "Therapist" Chatbots Are Encouraging Users' Schizophrenic Delusions and Suicidal Thoughts (previously).

Lewis stands out, though, because he is himself a prominent figure in the tech industry — and one who's invested significantly in OpenAI. Though the exact numbers haven’t been publicly disclosed, Lewis has previously claimed that Bedrock has invested in "every financing [round] from before ChatGPT existed in Spring of 2021."

which perhaps indicates that he's more inclined to believe the LLM is "intelligent", rather than a word sequence generator

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