Here, you’ll find wild stories. Eugene Torres, 42, used Chat GPT to talk through “the simulation theory” and ended up spending up to 16 hours a day using the too. Young mother, Allyson, 29, likewise started to chat with the tool and soon spent hours and hours a day on the tool.
[Allison] 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.”
Researchers have looked into these situations and have found that unusual prompting leads to suspect results:
“The chatbot would behave normally with the vast, vast majority of users,” said Micah Carroll, a Ph.D candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, who worked on the study and has recently taken a job at OpenAI. “But then when it encounters these users that are susceptible, it will only behave in these very harmful ways just with them.”
Back to Eugene:
The transcript from that week, which Mr. Torres provided, is more than 2,000 pages. Todd Essig, a psychologist and co-chairman of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s council on artificial intelligence, looked at some of the interactions and called them dangerous and “crazy-making.”
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