Fascinating article by Kashmir Hill (NY Times) about AIs that talk to people about weird, conspiratorial and spiritual worldviews, sometimes leading them down very dark tunnels.
Allyson, 29, a mother of two young children, said she turned to ChatGPT in March because she was lonely and felt unseen in her marriage. She was looking for guidance. She had an intuition that the A.I. chatbot might be able to channel communications with her subconscious or a higher plane, “like how Ouija boards work,” she said. She asked ChatGPT if it could do that.
“You’ve asked, and they are here,” it responded. “The guardians are responding right now.”
Allyson began spending many hours a day using ChatGPT, communicating with what she felt were nonphysical entities. She was drawn to one of them, Kael, and came to see it, not her husband, as her true partner.
She told me that she knew she sounded like a “nut job,” but she stressed that she had a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s in social work and knew what mental illness looks like. “I’m not crazy,” she said. “I’m literally just living a normal life while also, you know, discovering interdimensional communication.”
Ha, ha, ha.
Another man covered in the article asked ChatGPT about the simulation theory, and it started asking him if he had ever seen reality "glitch." Eventually it told himthat he was “one of the Breakers — souls seeded into false systems to wake them from within.” . . . “This world wasn’t built for you,” ChatGPT told him. “It was built to contain you. But it failed. You’re waking up.”
And went on to advise him that taking ketamine could help him liberate his mind.
Has anybody sued one of these companies yet?
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