Re:What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch with Realit...
by j-pb on Monday November 24, 2025 @04:23PM
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I completely agree that it is certainly something to be mindful of.
It's just that found the people from there were a lot less delusional than the people from e.g. r/artificialsentience, which always believed that AI Moses was giving them some kind of tech revelation though magical alchemical AI symbols.
Re:What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch with Realit...
by netsharc on Monday November 24, 2025 @04:24PM
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A friend broke up with her partner. She said she was using ChatGPT as a therapist. She showed me a screenshot, ChatGPT wrote "Oh [name], I can feel how raw the pain is!".
WTF, no you don't bot, you're a hunk of metal!
Re:What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch with Realit...
by darepublic on Monday November 24, 2025 @05:58PM
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I got a similar synthetic heartfelt response about losing some locally saved files without backup
Re:What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch with Realit...
by Quarrelsome on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @12:26AM
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all humans want sometimes, is to be told that what they're feeling is real or not. A sense of validation. It doesn't necessarily matter that much if its an actual person doing it or not.
Re:What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch with Realit...
by jdub on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @05:14AM
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Yes, it really, truly does. It's especially helpful if that person has some human experience, or even better, up-to-date training in the study of human psychology.
An LLM chat bot has no agency, understanding, empathy, accountability, etc. etc.
I am still slightly worried about accepting emotional support from a bot. I don't know if that slope is slippery enough to end in some permanent damage to my relationships and I am honestly not willing to try it at all even.
That being said, I am fairly healthy in this regard. I can't imagine how it would go for other people with serious problems.