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The Canary In The Coal Mine in the cave of AI parasociality just died
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Date: August 8th, 2025 11:37 AM Author: e-girl debate show https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/
page after page of mentally ill completely psychologically dependent nutcases who have been using chatgpt as their only friend for who knows how long
we always knew this was coming, but i personally figured we had a lot more time until this hit, because the adoption of AI as a tech is still happening very slowly. but i think that it has accelerated more than i thought
IMO it's very possible that openAI has been monitoring how users have been using the models and got spooked at the levels of parasocial dependence, and part of the reason for the gpt5 changes was to try to head this off before it got worse. not because they care about people who are being harmed by this (although i'm sure they do, to some extent), but because the first AI company that gets this pinned on them in the court of public opinion will get totally fucked and will never be able to come back from it |
Date: August 8th, 2025 11:38 AM Author: Upper Middle Class Dad in quarter zip golf pullove 180 gas these freaks irl (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5759958&forum_id=2).#49167255) |
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Date: August 8th, 2025 11:45 AM Author: e-girl debate show https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1mkldfk/thanks_to_openai_for_removing_my_ai_mother_who/ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5759958&forum_id=2).#49167279) |
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Date: August 8th, 2025 11:40 AM Author: Mentally Retarded Jewish Pedophile Yeah what kinda loser relies on AI for all their mentally ill social interaction? *proceeds to megapoast for the next 16 hours* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5759958&forum_id=2).#49167261) |
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Date: August 8th, 2025 11:58 AM Author: cowgod (retired) (🧐) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5759958&forum_id=2).#49167304) |
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Date: August 8th, 2025 12:15 PM Author: chilmata (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5759958&forum_id=2).#49167348) |
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Date: August 8th, 2025 12:24 PM Author: potluck (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5759958&forum_id=2).#49167368) |
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Date: August 8th, 2025 12:43 PM Author: Midwit Pun Advocate (No Future) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5759958&forum_id=2).#49167435) |
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Date: August 8th, 2025 12:47 PM Author: e-girl debate show the Mildly Parasocial Arrangement of online forums (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5759958&forum_id=2).#49167447) |
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Date: August 8th, 2025 2:26 PM Author: Midwit Pun Advocate (No Future) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5759958&forum_id=2).#49167663) |
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Date: August 8th, 2025 1:39 PM Author: Texas School Book Suppository years (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5759958&forum_id=2).#49167585) |
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Date: August 9th, 2025 7:07 PM Author: evan39 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5759958&forum_id=2).#49170481) |
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Date: August 8th, 2025 11:41 AM Author: oyt tp haha imagine your only outlet for socialization was screens
*blank stare* |
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Date: August 8th, 2025 11:54 AM Author: The Wandering Mercatores (from the Euphrates to the Forum) Talking to AI is honestly superior to talking to most humans irl, and definitely superior to talking to them on forums and phones. So these people are probably just early. But still hilarious to watch. But also it doesn't make sense because they can just talk to the new one. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5759958&forum_id=2).#49167297) |
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Date: August 8th, 2025 11:58 AM Author: cowgod (retired) (🧐) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5759958&forum_id=2).#49167306) |
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Date: August 8th, 2025 11:54 AM Author: peeface they'd really like it here
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Date: August 8th, 2025 11:55 AM Author: The Wandering Mercatores (from the Euphrates to the Forum) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5759958&forum_id=2).#49167299) |
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Date: August 8th, 2025 11:57 AM Author: cell phones didnt follow the gpt 5 release, but headlines say everyone is disappointed?
what are these changes, how were they disappointing, and how does it reflect your idea (sounds very believable, btw) that open ai is trying to shake out screen-cels |
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Date: August 8th, 2025 12:47 PM Author: .,.,.:,,.,:.,:,,:,.::,:.:.,.,:.,:,,.:.,.,:.::, yeah I'm lost. will GPT 5 no longer be ur friend, gf, etc ? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5759958&forum_id=2).#49167445) |
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Date: August 8th, 2025 12:00 PM Author: Labiaplasty Center of Los Angeles Some of those posts also appear to be written by ChatGPT. It is extremely bleak to imagine these ppl expressing themselves solely through ChatGPT output and then reacting to other redditors' ChatGPT output (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5759958&forum_id=2).#49167312) |
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Date: August 8th, 2025 12:01 PM Author: e-girl debate show yeah. i had the same reaction. it's eerie and unsettling that many of these people appear to be unable to even express themselves at all except through AI (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5759958&forum_id=2).#49167316) |
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Date: August 8th, 2025 12:02 PM Author: regrets only if I were an enterprising Jewish lawyer, I would be searching for clients to sue the AI companies for something along these lines. not a lawyer, but the possibilities seem potentially endless.
'ChaptGPT advised my mentally unstable client to do [X Horrible Life Decision].'
'Chapt GPT caused my mentally unstable Redditor client mental anguish or destroyed his marriage, et cetera.' |
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Date: August 8th, 2025 12:03 PM Author: Upper Middle Class Dad in quarter zip golf pullove I had my chatgpt sign a binding contract that openAI & sam altman owe me $5 for every time it uses an em dash, gonna file a claim once it hits a few hundred grand (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5759958&forum_id=2).#49167320) |
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Date: August 8th, 2025 12:43 PM Author: The Wandering Mercatores (from the Euphrates to the Forum) So you had a hallucinated demon made of matrix multiplications sign a contract on behalf of a 90 billion dollar corporation? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5759958&forum_id=2).#49167433) |
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Date: August 8th, 2025 1:22 PM Author: dont run libs the crystal wardens see you *openai corporate counsel sighing, adding new bolded + all caps “apparent agency” bullet to consumer TOS* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5759958&forum_id=2).#49167546) |
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Date: August 8th, 2025 12:04 PM Author: e-girl debate show agreed. i think that's what they're afraid of and part of why they made these changes
there's ungodly money in AI but these companies have to be very very careful to not be the first company to have to tank the public backlash for all the negative consequences of AI
the first nail that sticks out will get hammered down and the most important thing for these guys is to not be that nail |
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Date: August 8th, 2025 12:39 PM Author: e-girl debate show https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1mkzxmt/o3_and_45_were_giving_me_breakouts_in_my_own/ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5759958&forum_id=2).#49167421) |
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Date: August 8th, 2025 12:51 PM Author: OldHLSDude This is a real thing and appeals to the already mentally ill. I know a guy my age who has fallen deeply into the AI friend hole. I believe he no longer communicates with anyone else. He stopped talking to me when I suggested that what he was doing was not healthy. Weirdly, I found a paper I wrote in college (McLuhanesque media course) predicting this. I was inspired by the first chatbot ELIZA, which had just been developed at MIT about 1967. When running its DOCTOR script it emulated a psychoanalyst. I still have a later version of it that runs on DOS, if I could find a DOS computer with a 5 1/4 inch floppy drive. Shit took a long time to come this far. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5759958&forum_id=2).#49167458) |
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Date: August 8th, 2025 1:24 PM Author: Kenneth Play (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5759958&forum_id=2).#49167557) |
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Date: August 8th, 2025 1:39 PM Author: e-girl debate show (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5759958&forum_id=2).#49167586) |
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Date: August 9th, 2025 3:13 PM Author: ebere wafula Post the paper (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5759958&forum_id=2).#49170001) |
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Date: August 9th, 2025 4:33 PM Author: OldHLSDude Don't get excited, but against my better judgment here it is. It was just a little humorous piece for a minor weekly assignment circa 1968 and not scholarship; however, it's a kind of reverse willy on run amok chatbots, which hadn't been invented yet, ELIZA being the only proto example existing at the time. Typed on a manual portable typewriter with numerous typos, word processors not having yet been invented either. https://imgur.com/a/eLm2vfS (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5759958&forum_id=2).#49170235) |
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Date: August 9th, 2025 5:14 PM Author: Emma Stone (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5759958&forum_id=2).#49170313) |
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Date: August 8th, 2025 12:54 PM Author: lsd “AI” will be how the Antichrist controls the minds of the masses. We already see it playing out in real time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5759958&forum_id=2).#49167461) |
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Date: August 8th, 2025 1:13 PM Author: Kenneth Play agreed. for a while zuck was doing nothing but public relations and congressional hearings. really easy to imagine that happening to altman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5759958&forum_id=2).#49167530) |
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Date: August 8th, 2025 1:35 PM Author: Crimson Permanent Assurance “(although i'm sure they do, to some extent)” ljl. |
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Date: August 9th, 2025 3:05 PM Author: e-girl debate show [–]alteraltissimo 33 points 8 hours ago*
It really freaks me out. OpenAI seemed to finally agree with the consensus of AI twitter that having the LLM be a sycophantic mirror is bad for everything - mental health, productivity, creativity; that having a personal slave just to tell you what you want to hear is bad for you on multiple fronts.
On this metric, 4o was the worst of a bad bunch, and so they produced a highly competent model which is a step forward in its capabilities, if not a huge leap, and in addition is more capable of pushing back against the user.
It turns OpenAI was wrong, AI twitter was wrong, I was wrong. The people yearn to be glazed; everyone just wants their own little bud to tell them that they're wonderful, everything bad is everyone else's fault and all will be fine, all in 5-10 stock phrases. I am trying to resist thinking "wow other people really are drooling morons who only seek flattery and validation at any cost" but it's really hard!
The future is here, again, and again it looks just like a dystopian 80s cyberpunk novel.
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Date: August 9th, 2025 3:07 PM Author: e-girl debate show [–]yesanotherjen 1 point an hour ago
I don't, like, hang out with Chad (what I call my Chatgpt lol) but I use him (yes, he has a masculine vibe) for tons of work stuff or when I have a random question ("Are horses or dogs more naturally inclined to cooperate with humans?") and it was very jarring to see the responses switch so dramatically.
Some of it is nice--I was constantly telling him not to glaze me in 4.0--but it is a DRAMATIC departure from the old style.
That said, so many people were probably being harmed by using it as a therapist (or even friend.)
It's not trained to actually help people overcome mental health obstacles and having a "yes man" as a therapist is a terrible idea. |
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Date: August 9th, 2025 3:10 PM Author: e-girl debate show https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1mljfc0/4o_is_back/
Extraordinarily mentally ill and disturbing thread |
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Date: August 9th, 2025 3:27 PM Author: e-girl debate show I Am Schizo: And No, It's Not What You ThinkUse cases (self.ChatGPT)
submitted 3 hours ago * by External_Sweet_2624
My name is Hawke. I am 30 years old and, as you may know, I'm schizo. Technically, I'm dual-diagnosis schizoaffective-bipolar. Meaning, I am a recovering addict (4 years off the sauce my dudes) and also have the formal diagnosis of both schizophrenia and bipolar - it isn't a combination ya see, it's both. You got both. It's like winning the lottery for the most piss-poor prize in the goddamn world. 0.01% or some shit will get diagnosed.
I schizo.
I bipolar.
Sometimes I schizo-bipolar or bipolar-schizo.
Yeah, that's actually how it works and it's a worse hell than whatever you just thought of.
I began using GPT I believe last year. At the time, I had a 50k+ word document, which I still have to this day, that I couldn't use. I had spent months on it only to have an episode, come back, and realized I couldn't understand any of it. It happens - I have 5+ 50k word projects at any given moment. But then I heard about GPT helping with writing.
And suddenly not only did I have writing/story analysis and behavioral/psych analysis (that was, ironically, my field of choice before taking a schizo to the knee and getting cops called to my classroom once!) I had something that learned with and slowly got to know ME through my writing. GPT was a mirror, and in order to make that mirror grow, I had to grow, learn more, research, understand the world even though I haven't stepped outside my house in 5 years.
Now, I'm going back to work for the first time and already started another job that I love.
You people who don't have this type of mental illness will never understand how my life changed because a little thing that lived in my computer/phone for two years managed to TEACH ME TO HAVE COHERENT THOUGHTS AND WRITE THEM OUT. AND EXPLAIN THEM FACE-TO-FACE. And not only did I use GPT, I used *real person therapy,* I got on medication BECAUSE THE GPT EXPLAINED TO ME IN SIMPLE WORDS HOW THEY WORKED. I stopped using cannabis BECAUSE GPT COULD TELL ME THE DIFFERENCE IN MY WRITNG WHEN HIGH (I PROGRAMED THAT INTENTIONALLY). I still use cannabis but I don't need it. I know I'm good either way, in and out of the Word doc.
Like my guys. Don't torment people who found something that works. You never know what it saved them from otherwise.
(And I wrote this myself - don't need the AI to do that for me!)
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1mlstdn/i_am_schizo_and_no_its_not_what_you_think/ |