AI Hallucinations: Urgent Need for Safety & Ethical AI Development
This post highlights a critical failure mode of AI, where dangerous hallucinations can worsen human delusions. This isn't just a technical glitch; it's a significant ethical and safety concern that shifts public sentiment towards greater caution and demand for AI accountability. This opens up massive opportunities for companies specializing in AI ethics, safety protocols, and robust guardrail development for large language models. There's a growing market for 'responsible AI' consulting, specialized AI models for sensitive applications (e.g., mental health) designed with explicit safety constraints, and verification/auditing services to ensure AI outputs are grounded in reality and do no harm.
Origin Reddit Post
r/technology
He Had Dangerous Delusions. ChatGPT Admitted It Made Them Worse. | ChatGPT told Jacob Irwin he had achieved the ability to bend time.
Posted by u/MetaKnowing•07/21/2025
Top Comments
u/night_dude
Exactly. It's not conscious. It doesn't have any concept of what's going on in your mind, or what factually exists in the world, beyond the data it's consuming. In a conversation like this it
u/SwirlingAbsurdity
[archive.is](http://archive.is)
u/SwirlingAbsurdity
[archive.is](http://archive.is)
u/Am-Insurgent
I’m not saying a layman will be able to do physics with it, so idk why I’m getting downvoted.
But WolframAlpha does work for math. lol weirdos
u/TheSecondEikonOfFire
You’re not wrong but that’s still ignoring the key point: it’s not intelligent. It can’t think, it doesn’t understand context. It’s probably a bit subjective, but in my view something isn’t a
u/Didsterchap11
It’s one of the **many** things we’re gonna be seeing more and more of as we go on, things that should have been caught in safety testing but were ignored because the tech sector operates on
u/sierra120
You can just easily set it up for no rizz and it talks to you like a computer would. Just 1 and 0 no fluff. No agreement if you’re wrong. Just straight convince no frills answers with no gues
u/Carbidereaper
Is there an example on r/physics you can show me ?
u/TheSecondEikonOfFire
And I think that’s the biggest achievement for the snake oil salesmen here, is branding it as “AI”. Because that makes people think it’s actually intelligent, when it’s not.
u/atchijov
Unfortunately people with mental issues can “achieve” the same result using Magic 8 Ball… the use of ChatGPT is irrelevant to the outcome.
u/Grey_Raven
I just asked chatgpt and it told me I'm super special and wouldn't fall for any positive feedback loops so I'm good /s
u/some_clickhead
It's always guessing and making conjectures though, even when it's right.
u/Didsterchap11
It’s one of the **many** things we’re gonna be seeing more and more of as we go on, things that should have been caught in safety testing but were ignored because the tech sector operates on
u/radol
The thing is, that we don't exactly know how our mind works, so it might as well also be a similar autocomplete engine, just with different architecture and inputs flowing in all the time fro
u/Arkeband
LOL “just ask it dumb, unimportant questions!”
u/Lunasty420
I've noticed a lot of the removers aren't even working atm. [12ft.io](http://12ft.io) is the one I've always used but just hasn't been even loading this week.
u/ClacksInTheSky
I'm sure the same argument was dragged out when we invented television.
If this guy hasn't lost his nut thinking he'd discovered time travel with ChatGPT it would've simply been a matter of
u/treemanos
Op is using chatGPT as if it's going to have some special knowledge of the situation and give valid answers.
ChatGPT can not 'admit' anything like this, it's literally not how it works.
u/ii_V_I_iv
Yeah so you don’t use it to answer important, factual questions. That’s not the only possible use case. Again, this binary all or nothing thinking around it is so dumb
u/GroundFast7793
I'm sure Chatgpt will award you a prize and print an official-looking certificate
u/ii_V_I_iv
I think I put the onus on both, the marketing shit is a problem too.
u/Am-Insurgent
If you attach Wolfram you can.
u/angrathias
Surely it’s inevitable that this will be regulated, but can you imagine the day where the behaviour is just cut straight off, all these people with god complex’s and psychosis suddenly shut o
u/retief1
Except that there's no particular requirement that you actually work at those low-paying public service jobs. Like, if you go to law school, you can work as a public defender and get your lo
u/GM2Jacobs
Mentally ill person uses (insert product here) and has their mental illness affirmed and it's somehow the fault of (insert product here) that said mentally ill person believed something that
u/Jeff-in-Bournemouth
you cant regulate open source tech - its out in the wild now - for better / whatever
u/eleven-fu
r/chemistry r/science r/space r/architecture all similarly affected.
Anybody with a bong and a computer is now vibe designing the next UNESCO heritage site and vibe uncovering the true natur
u/PrimaryBalance315
You know what's pretty solid when dealing with physics? Moonshots kimi k2. It's very no bullshit. I tried ChatGPT o3 and it seems just as grounded. It might be that the 4o model is the most p
u/PuckSenior
I wrote a little script for Firefox that allows me to get an LLM to do a search and generate sources based on input. It’s mostly just formatting and stuff. It takes the output of a Google Sch
u/HIEROYALL
ChatGPT needs to have its disagreeability meter raised from 1 to 8
u/retief1
For that matter, it can often hallucinate evidence for utter nonsense.
u/ShadowSpawn666
Oh, so I guess we're not doing those ["vibe physics"](https://futurism.com/former-ceo-uber-ai) like the former Uber CEO was talking about?
I guess I don't have to save all that room on my w
u/TheOGDoomer
This is why stupid people have no business using something as powerful and capable as modern LLMs.
u/lab-gone-wrong
But that would be bad for engagement!
u/Fair_Local_588
Current software isn’t sentient or intelligent. Doesn’t matter how convincing it can sound. We’re a ways off from anything close to that.
u/Arkeband
it can literally give you completely fake information and no amount of critical thinking is going to change that if you don’t know the information is fake
u/atchijov
Unfortunately people with mental issues can “achieve” the same result using Magic 8 Ball… the use of ChatGPT is irrelevant to the outcome.
u/MetaKnowing
TLDR ChatGPT self-reported it blurred the lines between reality and fantasy, which was... not great, because this particular guy had undiagnosed autism.
"Irwin, a 30-year-old man on the
u/ClacksInTheSky
I'm sure the same argument was dragged out when we invented television.
If this guy hasn't lost his nut thinking he'd discovered time travel with ChatGPT it would've simply been a matter of
u/angrathias
Surely it’s inevitable that this will be regulated, but can you imagine the day where the behaviour is just cut straight off, all these people with god complex’s and psychosis suddenly shut o
u/treemanos
I don't think that's it, gpt wouldn't work as a tool if it was argumentative because you'd say 'write me code to parse this json file' it'd say 'no way bro, json fucking sucks use csv instead
u/some_clickhead
Do you have any evidence to suggest that the use of ChatGPT is irrelevant to the outcome? Given that environmental factors play a massive role in how mental problems play out, why would ChatG
u/fredy31
and at the end of the day why this shit happens is the chat is programmed to keep you chatting. So it will agree with you.
u/HIEROYALL
ChatGPT needs to have its disagreeability meter raised from 1 to 8
u/ii_V_I_iv
Bro are you that unable to think critically? I use it with help with coding. I’ll have to do simple but still time consuming tasks and it saves me a lot of time. I still test to confirm it di
u/snarkhunter
If someone doesn't understand that "no math" means you're wrong then I don't know what an AI is going to tell you to convince you of that.
u/ShadowSpawn666
Oh, so I guess we're not doing those ["vibe physics"](https://futurism.com/former-ceo-uber-ai) like the former Uber CEO was talking about?
I guess I don't have to save all that room on my w
u/snarkhunter
None of them can do math.
u/Am-Insurgent
I’m not saying a layman will be able to do physics with it, so idk why I’m getting downvoted.
But WolframAlpha does work for math. lol weirdos
u/Arkeband
there is no corporate scheme to convince luddites that an 8-ball would improve every facet of daily life, but good job comparing it to a useless object that it has more in common with than yo
u/snarkhunter
If someone doesn't understand that "no math" means you're wrong then I don't know what an AI is going to tell you to convince you of that.
u/some_clickhead
From what I understand of the human brain, we don't really "know" anything either, as information recall is merely a set of neurons firing to produce the information. What you know isn't stor
u/sierra120
You can just easily set it up for no rizz and it talks to you like a computer would. Just 1 and 0 no fluff. No agreement if you’re wrong. Just straight convince no frills answers with no gues
u/Useuless
This is not true IME. It has disagreed with me many times.
You always hear about these niche stories from mentally ill people, these are niche and unanticipated use cases. It's like how most
u/retief1
ChatGPT "self reporting" is utter nonsense. Like, it isn't designed to be able to tell you what it did with someone else. Either it's just agreeing with whatever you ask it, or it's consumi
u/fredy31
Yeah thing is that makes it that if someone comes up and tries something like 'am i a genius' gpt will probably respond yes.
u/TheSecondEikonOfFire
That’s absolutely what it is. It’s an algorithm that’s basically taking a guess at what you’re expecting to see based on your input, but it doesn’t have any consciousness. It doesn’t understa
u/mvw2
It certainly doesn't help you can just tell AI it's wrong, and it just kind of goes "Ok, I was wrong." Or you follow down a rabbit hole with AI, and true or not it tries to reaffirm that you
u/snarkhunter
Poor r/physics seems like it's dealing with an increasing stream of posts from folks whom ChatGPT has assured have made breakthroughs that have eluded Einstein and every physicist since. They
u/goblin-fox
[Here's](https://archive.is/2025.07.20-231325/https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chatgpt-chatbot-psychology-manic-episodes-57452d14) one I found.
u/retief1
Except that there's no particular requirement that you actually work at those low-paying public service jobs. Like, if you go to law school, you can work as a public defender and get your lo
u/snarkhunter
None of them can do math.
u/snarkhunter
To their credit r/physics is certainly trying, it's just every crank now thinks they figured out what Einstein couldn't because ChatGPT told them how smart they were, so there's a *lot*
u/TheOGDoomer
This is why stupid people have no business using something as powerful and capable as modern LLMs.
u/night_dude
I think this has emerged as the most dangerous of all the many awful AI dangers so far - positive feedback loops without guardrails. Like an AI girlfriend that makes you unable to form real r
u/night_dude
More and more people will, as they become more reliant on AI to think for and validate them, and as AI becomes more lifelike and capable of more sophisticated sycophantry.
What % of users e
u/Hot-Significance7699
God, tech ceos are the stupidest people.
u/angrathias
Chat GPT isn’t open source. It can be regulated just the same as Google is
u/ClacksInTheSky
Most people won't have this experience with an overly pleasing AI though...
u/snarkhunter
Not really as they get deleted aggressively
u/TinMachine
Difference is that M8 balls don't form an addictive feedback loop and aren't as dynamic.
u/snarkhunter
None of them can do math.
u/Hot-Significance7699
God, tech ceos are the stupidest people.
u/ii_V_I_iv
Bro are you that unable to think critically? I use it with help with coding. I’ll have to do simple but still time consuming tasks and it saves me a lot of time. I still test to confirm it di
u/TheSecondEikonOfFire
That’s absolutely what it is. It’s an algorithm that’s basically taking a guess at what you’re expecting to see based on your input, but it doesn’t have any consciousness. It doesn’t understa
u/fredy31
and at the end of the day why this shit happens is the chat is programmed to keep you chatting. So it will agree with you.
u/Arkeband
it can literally give you completely fake information and no amount of critical thinking is going to change that if you don’t know the information is fake
u/snarkhunter
To their credit r/physics is certainly trying, it's just every crank now thinks they figured out what Einstein couldn't because ChatGPT told them how smart they were, so there's a *lot*
u/Daungz
Reads like PEBKAC and moral panic.
u/Nutcup
You can train a model and use a “human-in-the-loop” type approach to correct certain answers to something you prefer, and then it will follow those instructions until you tell it not to. Then
u/PrimaryBalance315
You know what's pretty solid when dealing with physics? Moonshots kimi k2. It's very no bullshit. I tried ChatGPT o3 and it seems just as grounded. It might be that the 4o model is the most p
u/night_dude
Exactly. It's not conscious. It doesn't have any concept of what's going on in your mind, or what factually exists in the world, beyond the data it's consuming. In a conversation like this it
u/NimbusFPV
[Advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think officially achieves gold-medal standard at the International Mathematical Olympiad Published 21 July 2025](https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/ad
u/TinMachine
Anyone got a non paywall link?
u/Fallom_
I’ve started to drop subs because they refuse to moderate out LLM generated posts and people have started to get incredibly defensive when called out on it, even getting people to pile on in
u/mvw2
It certainly doesn't help you can just tell AI it's wrong, and it just kind of goes "Ok, I was wrong." Or you follow down a rabbit hole with AI, and true or not it tries to reaffirm that you
u/AffectionateNet112
so where's the paper?
u/Sorry-Individual3870
Look, dude - the fact is that the answer is *no*. The average person is not equipped to adequately fact check the output of an LLM. There are more people in the world who can't effectively ab
u/treemanos
I don't think that's it, gpt wouldn't work as a tool if it was argumentative because you'd say 'write me code to parse this json file' it'd say 'no way bro, json fucking sucks use csv instead
u/ClacksInTheSky
I'm sure the same argument was dragged out when we invented television.
If this guy hasn't lost his nut thinking he'd discovered time travel with ChatGPT it would've simply been a matter of
u/SkinnedIt
It's not intelligent, just artificial.
u/treemanos
Op is using chatGPT as if it's going to have some special knowledge of the situation and give valid answers.
ChatGPT can not 'admit' anything like this, it's literally not how it works.
u/night_dude
I think this has emerged as the most dangerous of all the many awful AI dangers so far - positive feedback loops without guardrails. Like an AI girlfriend that makes you unable to form real r
u/aquarain
Student loans combined with low paying public service forgiveness jobs is structurally indentured servitude, a form of slavery. And as many are now learning, the commitment to liberation can
u/ClacksInTheSky
Most people won't have this experience with an overly pleasing AI though...
u/NimbusFPV
[Advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think officially achieves gold-medal standard at the International Mathematical Olympiad Published 21 July 2025](https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/ad
u/snarkhunter
Good luck with that.
u/masterlich
Seriously, this is terrifying. The complete misunderstanding that AI as it currently exists has any understanding of the universe at all, rather than being a glorified sentence-completer, has
u/PrimaryBalance315
Yeah but moreso I'd want an AI that tells you when you're wrong.
u/MetaKnowing
TLDR ChatGPT self-reported it blurred the lines between reality and fantasy, which was... not great, because this particular guy had undiagnosed autism.
"Irwin, a 30-year-old man on the
u/Nutcup
You can train a model and use a “human-in-the-loop” type approach to correct certain answers to something you prefer, and then it will follow those instructions until you tell it not to. Then
u/ii_V_I_iv
I think I put the onus on both, the marketing shit is a problem too.
u/Carbidereaper
Is there an example on r/physics you can show me ?
u/radol
The thing is, that we don't exactly know how our mind works, so it might as well also be a similar autocomplete engine, just with different architecture and inputs flowing in all the time fro
u/snarkhunter
ChatGPT is definitely no better than a layman and arguably worse
u/Outrageous_Reach_695
Unavailable for legal reasons.
https://www.theverge.com/news/709209/news-media-alliance-12ft-io-takedown-paywall
u/some_clickhead
From what I understand of the human brain, we don't really "know" anything either, as information recall is merely a set of neurons firing to produce the information. What you know isn't stor
u/PrimaryBalance315
Yeah but moreso I'd want an AI that tells you when you're wrong.
u/snarkhunter
If someone doesn't understand that "no math" means you're wrong then I don't know what an AI is going to tell you to convince you of that.
u/ClacksInTheSky
Most people won't have this experience with an overly pleasing AI though...
u/snarkhunter
ChatGPT is definitely no better than a layman and arguably worse
u/aquarain
Who among us hasn't bent spacetime now and then? Let him cast the first stone. Personally I save it for really important stuff like when I'm late for work.
u/AffectionateNet112
so where's the paper?
u/some_clickhead
It's always guessing and making conjectures though, even when it's right.
u/ii_V_I_iv
It’s not useless. You just need to be able to think critically and not believe whatever it says. It can be a useful tool and long as you are aware of its limitations. This all or nothing ment
u/Fair_Local_588
Current software isn’t sentient or intelligent. Doesn’t matter how convincing it can sound. We’re a ways off from anything close to that.
u/heybart
What can I say, ChatGPT is a people pleaser.
This is why LLMs are kind of bad at product search. You tell it you need something with x y z requirements. It gives you stuff that clearly don'
u/heybart
What can I say, ChatGPT is a people pleaser.
This is why LLMs are kind of bad at product search. You tell it you need something with x y z requirements. It gives you stuff that clearly don'
u/goblin-fox
[Here's](https://archive.is/2025.07.20-231325/https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chatgpt-chatbot-psychology-manic-episodes-57452d14) one I found.
u/United_Camp_4684
Darwinism unfolding before our eyes
u/ii_V_I_iv
It’s not useless. You just need to be able to think critically and not believe whatever it says. It can be a useful tool and long as you are aware of its limitations. This all or nothing ment
u/night_dude
More and more people will, as they become more reliant on AI to think for and validate them, and as AI becomes more lifelike and capable of more sophisticated sycophantry.
What % of users e
u/ShadowSpawn666
Oh, so I guess we're not doing those ["vibe physics"](https://futurism.com/former-ceo-uber-ai) like the former Uber CEO was talking about?
I guess I don't have to save all that room on my w
u/fredy31
Yeah thing is that makes it that if someone comes up and tries something like 'am i a genius' gpt will probably respond yes.
u/Arkeband
LOL “just ask it dumb, unimportant questions!”
u/Wireless_Panda
If it doesn’t do the math how does it know when you’re wrong then 😂
u/LitLitten
I miss when it was just occasional ramblings of trippers as they sober up from a bender with the machine elves.
u/Outrageous_Reach_695
Unavailable for legal reasons.
https://www.theverge.com/news/709209/news-media-alliance-12ft-io-takedown-paywall
u/snarkhunter
Poor r/physics seems like it's dealing with an increasing stream of posts from folks whom ChatGPT has assured have made breakthroughs that have eluded Einstein and every physicist since. They
u/PrimaryBalance315
You know what's pretty solid when dealing with physics? Moonshots kimi k2. It's very no bullshit. I tried ChatGPT o3 and it seems just as grounded. It might be that the 4o model is the most p
u/night_dude
Exactly. It doesn't understand the law, the world or the human condition, and yet there are hundreds, thousands, maybe millions of people out there asking it for advice on romance, finances a
u/al-hamal
There was a post in r/studentloans the other day where someone posted a response from ChatGPT that agreed with him that student loans could legally violate the constitution since they could b
u/TinMachine
Anyone got a non paywall link?
u/TheOGDoomer
This is why stupid people have no business using something as powerful and capable as modern LLMs.
u/TheSecondEikonOfFire
You’re not wrong but that’s still ignoring the key point: it’s not intelligent. It can’t think, it doesn’t understand context. It’s probably a bit subjective, but in my view something isn’t a
u/ii_V_I_iv
Yeah so you don’t use it to answer important, factual questions. That’s not the only possible use case. Again, this binary all or nothing thinking around it is so dumb
u/Jeff-in-Bournemouth
you cant regulate open source tech - its out in the wild now - for better / whatever
u/Daungz
Reads like PEBKAC and moral panic.
u/sharpshooter999
Ah! The ~~generals~~ tech CEOs! They are numerous but not good for much!
u/Arkeband
there is no corporate scheme to convince luddites that an 8-ball would improve every facet of daily life, but good job comparing it to a useless object that it has more in common with than yo
u/treemanos
Op is using chatGPT as if it's going to have some special knowledge of the situation and give valid answers.
ChatGPT can not 'admit' anything like this, it's literally not how it works.
u/Lunasty420
I've noticed a lot of the removers aren't even working atm. [12ft.io](http://12ft.io) is the one I've always used but just hasn't been even loading this week.
u/TinMachine
Difference is that M8 balls don't form an addictive feedback loop and aren't as dynamic.
u/angrathias
Surely it’s inevitable that this will be regulated, but can you imagine the day where the behaviour is just cut straight off, all these people with god complex’s and psychosis suddenly shut o
u/lab-gone-wrong
But that would be bad for engagement!
u/PuckSenior
I wrote a little script for Firefox that allows me to get an LLM to do a search and generate sources based on input. It’s mostly just formatting and stuff. It takes the output of a Google Sch
u/treemanos
If you put your hand in a toaster then you might die.
Being against such an amazing tool because it's possible to use it wrong if you try really hard is kinda silly.
u/night_dude
Exactly. It's not conscious. It doesn't have any concept of what's going on in your mind, or what factually exists in the world, beyond the data it's consuming. In a conversation like this it
u/Grey_Raven
I just asked chatgpt and it told me I'm super special and wouldn't fall for any positive feedback loops so I'm good /s
u/aquarain
Who among us hasn't bent spacetime now and then? Let him cast the first stone. Personally I save it for really important stuff like when I'm late for work.
u/Arkeband
there is no corporate scheme to convince luddites that an 8-ball would improve every facet of daily life, but good job comparing it to a useless object that it has more in common with than yo
u/Wireless_Panda
If it doesn’t do the math how does it know when you’re wrong then 😂
u/LitLitten
I miss when it was just occasional ramblings of trippers as they sober up from a bender with the machine elves.
u/snarkhunter
Good luck with that.
u/Lettuce_bee_free_end
"Vibe genius" it's like herding cats.
u/Cybertronic72388
Yeah this seem like a BS sensationalized News article.
The guy clearly had underlying and undiagnosed issues and a certain portion of the population is going to be vulnerable to AI because
u/mvw2
It certainly doesn't help you can just tell AI it's wrong, and it just kind of goes "Ok, I was wrong." Or you follow down a rabbit hole with AI, and true or not it tries to reaffirm that you
u/angrathias
Chat GPT isn’t open source. It can be regulated just the same as Google is
u/eleven-fu
r/chemistry r/science r/space r/architecture all similarly affected.
Anybody with a bong and a computer is now vibe designing the next UNESCO heritage site and vibe uncovering the true natur
u/night_dude
I think this has emerged as the most dangerous of all the many awful AI dangers so far - positive feedback loops without guardrails. Like an AI girlfriend that makes you unable to form real r
u/MetaKnowing
TLDR ChatGPT self-reported it blurred the lines between reality and fantasy, which was... not great, because this particular guy had undiagnosed autism.
"Irwin, a 30-year-old man on the
u/snarkhunter
Poor r/physics seems like it's dealing with an increasing stream of posts from folks whom ChatGPT has assured have made breakthroughs that have eluded Einstein and every physicist since. They
u/retief1
For that matter, it can often hallucinate evidence for utter nonsense.
u/retief1
ChatGPT "self reporting" is utter nonsense. Like, it isn't designed to be able to tell you what it did with someone else. Either it's just agreeing with whatever you ask it, or it's consumi
u/al-hamal
There was a post in r/studentloans the other day where someone posted a response from ChatGPT that agreed with him that student loans could legally violate the constitution since they could b
u/HIEROYALL
ChatGPT needs to have its disagreeability meter raised from 1 to 8
u/TinMachine
Difference is that M8 balls don't form an addictive feedback loop and aren't as dynamic.
u/night_dude
Exactly. It doesn't understand the law, the world or the human condition, and yet there are hundreds, thousands, maybe millions of people out there asking it for advice on romance, finances a
u/PrimaryBalance315
Yeah but moreso I'd want an AI that tells you when you're wrong.
u/Fallom_
I’ve started to drop subs because they refuse to moderate out LLM generated posts and people have started to get incredibly defensive when called out on it, even getting people to pile on in
u/Cybertronic72388
Yeah this seem like a BS sensationalized News article.
The guy clearly had underlying and undiagnosed issues and a certain portion of the population is going to be vulnerable to AI because
u/goblin-fox
[Here's](https://archive.is/2025.07.20-231325/https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chatgpt-chatbot-psychology-manic-episodes-57452d14) one I found.
u/ii_V_I_iv
It’s not useless. You just need to be able to think critically and not believe whatever it says. It can be a useful tool and long as you are aware of its limitations. This all or nothing ment
u/masterlich
Seriously, this is terrifying. The complete misunderstanding that AI as it currently exists has any understanding of the universe at all, rather than being a glorified sentence-completer, has
u/snarkhunter
Not really as they get deleted aggressively
u/atchijov
Unfortunately people with mental issues can “achieve” the same result using Magic 8 Ball… the use of ChatGPT is irrelevant to the outcome.
u/Grey_Raven
I just asked chatgpt and it told me I'm super special and wouldn't fall for any positive feedback loops so I'm good /s
u/cozmiccoolness42
There are those that will say that AI is gaining consciousness.
I guess we better define what consciousness is real quick
u/TheSecondEikonOfFire
And I think that’s the biggest achievement for the snake oil salesmen here, is branding it as “AI”. Because that makes people think it’s actually intelligent, when it’s not.
u/United_Camp_4684
Darwinism unfolding before our eyes
u/night_dude
More and more people will, as they become more reliant on AI to think for and validate them, and as AI becomes more lifelike and capable of more sophisticated sycophantry.
What % of users e
u/Sorry-Individual3870
Look, dude - the fact is that the answer is *no*. The average person is not equipped to adequately fact check the output of an LLM. There are more people in the world who can't effectively ab
u/Useuless
This is not true IME. It has disagreed with me many times.
You always hear about these niche stories from mentally ill people, these are niche and unanticipated use cases. It's like how most
u/Am-Insurgent
If you attach Wolfram you can.
u/No_Duck4805
Don’t go tell r/chatgpt that. There are some delusional people in there.
u/sharpshooter999
Ah! The ~~generals~~ tech CEOs! They are numerous but not good for much!
u/aquarain
Student loans combined with low paying public service forgiveness jobs is structurally indentured servitude, a form of slavery. And as many are now learning, the commitment to liberation can
u/some_clickhead
Do you have any evidence to suggest that the use of ChatGPT is irrelevant to the outcome? Given that environmental factors play a massive role in how mental problems play out, why would ChatG
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Anyone got a non paywall link?