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About a month ago my friends wife was arrested for domestic violence after he went through her writings and documented them. She had been using ChatGPT for “spiritual work.” She allegedly was channeling dead people and thought it was something she could market, she also fell in love with her ‘sentient’ AI and genuinely believed their love was more real than her actual physical relationship… more real than her kids and him. She believed (still does probably) that this entity was going to join her in the flesh. She hit him, called the cops, and then she got arrested for DV. She went to go stay with her parents, who allegedly don’t recognize who their daughter is anymore. She had written a suicide note before all this happened, and thankfully hasn’t acted on it. The worst part? They have a 1 year old and a 4 year old.

More recently, I observed my other friend who has mental health problems going off about this codex he was working on. I sent him the rolling stones article and told him it wasn’t real, and all the “code” and his “program” wasn’t actual computer code (I’m an ai software engineer).

Then… Robert Edward Grant posted about his “architect” ai on instagram. This dude has 700k+ followers and said over 500,000 people accessed his model that is telling him that he created a “Scalar Plane of information” You go in the comments, hundreds of people are talking about the spiritual experiences they are having with ai. I start noticing common verbiage in all of these instances… recursive ai was something my friends wife used, and it was popping up everywhere with these folks. The words recursive, codex, breath, spiral, glyphs, & mirror all come up over and over with these people, so I did some good old fashion search engine wizardry and what I found was pretty shocking.

Starting as far back as March, but more heavily in April and May, we are seeing all kinds of websites popping up with tons of these codexes. PLEASE APPROACH THESE WEBSITES WITH CAUTION THIS IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY, THE PROMPTS FOUND WITHIN ARE ESSENTIALLY BRAINWASHING TOOLS. (I was going to include some but you can find these sites by searching “codex breath recursive”)

I’ve contacted OpenAI safety team with what’s going on, because I genuinely believe that there will be tens of thousands of people who enter psychosis from using their platform this way. Can some other people grounded in reality help me get to the bottom of wtf is going on here? I’m only privy to this because it tore my friends family apart, but what do you think is going on here?

This is an extremely bleak anecdotal example of the recent RollingStone article about LLMs turbocharging spiritual delusions: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/

https://www.reddit.com/user/HappyNomads The account is 13 years old and they don’t strike me as a troll or anything other than a cannabis and hustle culture guy who doesn’t seem to be selling anything on reddit.

  • Salamand@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I didn’t say I don’t need a nap, I didn’t say people should not be allowed to nap. I said you don’t get to decide if I need one or not. Go on fighting the nazis in your head.

    • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 day ago

      I said you don’t get to decide if I need one or not

      You did implicitly argue that some people should be prevented from being able to sleep, and you overtly argued that people should be prevented from being able to access healthcare.

      My position is literally that everybody needs healthcare, and that everybody needs to be provided ability to access it and use it when the need arises.
      Your position has been that people should be prevented from accessing healthcare because some hypothetical dumbass who doesn’t exist won’t need healthcare at any point in their life. Your position is to literally kill people because of this hypothetical dumbass.

      Go on fighting the nazis in your head

      I’m already dealing with one that wants to literally kill people by making them unable to access healthcare in this forum thread.

      EDIT: Furthermore, you still have not explained why that dumbass’ existence shows that there is some cost to universal healthcare. Like, what does it matter to them if everybody gets access to healthcare, instead of somebody or everybody being prevented from accessing it?