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A Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say
Bedrock co-founder Geoff Lewis has posted increasingly troubling content on social media, drawing concern from friends in the industry.
Earlier this week, a prominent venture capitalist named Geoff Lewis — managing partner of the multi-billion dollar investment firm Bedrock, which has backed high-profiletech companies including OpenAI and Vercel — posted a disturbing video on X-formerly-Twitter that's causing significant concern among his peers and colleagues. At the same time, it's difficult to ignore thatthe specific language he's using — with cryptic talk of "recursion," "mirrors," "signals" and shadowy conspiracies — sounds strikingly similar to something we've been reporting on extensively this year: a wave of people who are suffering severe breaks with reality as they spiral into the obsessive use of ChatGPT or other AI products, in alarming mental health emergencies that have led tohomelessness, involuntary commitment to psychiatric facilities, and even death. AI is a powerful technology, and the industry behind it has rushed to deploy it at breakneck speed to carve out market share — even as experts continue to warn that they barely understand how it actually works, nevermind the effects it might behaving on users worldwide.
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