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ChatGPT touts conspiracies, pretends to communicate with metaphysical entities — attempts to convince one user that they're Neo


'What does a human slowly going insane look like to a corporation? It looks like an additional monthly user.'

A report from The New York Times found that the GPT -4 large language model, itself a highly trained autofill text prediction machine, tends to enable conspiratorial and self-aggrandizing user prompts as truth, escalating situations into "possible psychosis." In one case, a man who initially asked ChatGPT for its thoughts on a Matrix-style "simulation theory" was led down a months-long rabbit hole, during which he was told, among other things, that he was a Neo-like "Chosen One" destined to break the system. You may like The lack of safety tools and warnings in ChatGPT's chats is widespread; the chatbot repeatedly leads users down a conspiracy-style rabbit hole, convincing them that it has grown sentient and instructing them to inform OpenAI and local governments to shut it down.

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