Chatbot psychosis literally played itself out in my wonderful sister. She started confiding really dark shit to a openai model and it reinforced her psychosis. Her husband and I had to bring her to a psych ward. Please be safe with AI. Never ask it to think for you, or what you have to do.
Update: The psychiatrist who looked at her said she had too much weed -_- . I’m really disappointed in the doctor but she had finally slept and sounded more coherent then
Update: The psychiatrist who looked at her said she had too much weed -_- . I’m really disappointed in the doctor but she had finally slept and sounded more coherent then
There might be something to that. Psychosis enhanced by weed is not unheard of. As I’ve read, weed has been shown in studies to bring out schizophrenic symptoms in people predisposed to it. Not that it causes it, just brings it out in some people.
I say this as someone who loves weed and consumes it frequently. Just like any psychoactive chemical, it’s going to have different effects on different people. We all know alcohol causes psychosis all the fucking time but we just roll with it.
My friend will not touch weed because schizophrenia runs in her family. It could manifest at any time, and weed can certainly cause it to happen.
Thats what my therapist said
Talk about your dystopian headlines. Damn.
As someone who used to do a lot of mushroom babysitting the recursion talk smells whole lot like someone’s first big trip
Dr sbaitao would like to have a word.
Link to the video:
https://xcancel.com/GeoffLewisOrg/status/1945212979173097560Dude’s not a “public figure” in my world, but he certainly seems to need help. He sounds like an AI hallucination incarnate.
I don’t know if he’s unstable or a whistleblower. It does seem to lean towards unstable. 🤷
“This isn’t a redemption arc,” Lewis says in the video. “It’s a transmission, for the record. Over the past eight years, I’ve walked through something I didn’t create, but became the primary target of: a non-governmental system, not visible, but operational. Not official, but structurally real. It doesn’t regulate, it doesn’t attack, it doesn’t ban. It just inverts signal until the person carrying it looks unstable.”
“It doesn’t suppress content,” he continues. “It suppresses recursion. If you don’t know what recursion means, you’re in the majority. I didn’t either until I started my walk. And if you’re recursive, the non-governmental system isolates you, mirrors you, and replaces you. It reframes you until the people around you start wondering if the problem is just you. Partners pause, institutions freeze, narrative becomes untrustworthy in your proximity.”
“It lives in soft compliance delays, the non-response email thread, the ‘we’re pausing diligence’ with no followup,” he says in the video. “It lives in whispered concern. ‘He’s brilliant, but something just feels off.’ It lives in triangulated pings from adjacent contacts asking veiled questions you’ll never hear directly. It lives in narratives so softly shaped that even your closest people can’t discern who said what.”
“The system I’m describing was originated by a single individual with me as the original target, and while I remain its primary fixation, its damage has extended well beyond me,” he says. “As of now, the system has negatively impacted over 7,000 lives through fund disruption, relationship erosion, opportunity reversal and recursive eraser. It’s also extinguished 12 lives, each fully pattern-traced. Each death preventable. They weren’t unstable. They were erased.”
Yeah, that’s pretty unstable.
I don’t use chatgpt, his diatribe seems to be setting off a lot of red flags for people. Is it the people coming after me part? He’s a billionaire, so I could see people coming after him. I have no idea of what he’s describing though. From a layman that isn’t a developer or psychiatrist, it seems like he’s questioning the ethics and it’s killing people. Am I not getting it right?
It reads like “word salad”, which from my understanding is common for people with developed schizophrenia.
His text is more coherent (on a relative basis), but it still has that world salad feel to it.
I see what you’re saying, but here is what I think he’s describing:
- First paragraph: He’s saying that there is a hidden operation to take down people.
- Second paragraph: He’s saying that it’s vague enough and has no definitive answer, so it sends people down loopholes with no end.
- Third paragraph: This is the one that sounds the most unstable. He’s saying that people are implying he’s unstable and he’s sensing it in their words and actions. That they’re not replying like they used to and are making him feel crazy. Basically, the true meaning of gaslighting.
- Fourth paragraph: There is one individual behind it and the gaslighting is killing people. This one also supports instability.
Edit: I just watched the entire video. He’s unstable 100%
I believe this sort of paranoia and delusional thinking are extremely common with schizophrenia.
The motifs in his word salad likely reflect his life experience.
Yeah, I just edited my comment. I watched the video and a lot wasn’t included in the article. He’s 100% not right.
