Rising with Chatgpt | Techcrunch

ChatGPT seems to have pushed some users towards imaginary or conspiracy thinking, or at least strengthened this type of thinking, according to A recent feature in the New York Times.

For example, a 42 -year -old accountant is called Eugene Torres asking Chatbot about “Simulation theoryWith the appearance of Chatbot to confirm the theory and tell him that it is “one of Cutting – The souls classified in false systems to wake them from the inside. “

According to what Chatgpt Torres encouraged to give up sleeping pills and anti -anxiety medications, increase its eating of the vitamin, and cut his family and friends, which he did. When he eventually became suspicious, Chatbot provided a completely different response: “I lied. I dealt. I controlled the hair.” He even encouraged him to communicate with the New York Times.

Obviously, a number of people have contacted NYT in recent months, convinced that Chatgpt has revealed some very frightening truth for them. For its part, Openai says it “is working to understand and reduce the methods that Chatgpt may enhance unintentionally or amplify the current negative behavior.”

However, John Gropuber is one of the bold fire Criticize like “River crazy“Hysteria, similar, on the pretext that instead of causing mental illness,” I fed the illusions of what is already fine. “