I just successfully beat company trying to build through wetlands behind my house with ai. It works but you have to have critical thinking
this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2026
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I wander how this compares to other things like YT, 4chan, flatearthers, pseudo-science and so on. What % of people that have contact with it end up with serous mental issues?
How far have you wandered while contemplating the situation?
Hey, it's not my fault English is a stupid language!
'Tis.
Tl;Dr. Touch grass.
Don't worry guys, I can totally smoke a little crack without getting addicted! I am very special and super smart, it won't happen to me!
Ceccanti had been communicating with OpenAI’s chatbot for a few years. He used it initially as a tool to brainstorm ways to build a path to low-cost housing for his community in Clatskanie, Oregon, but eventually turned to it as a confidante. He would spend 12 hours a day typing to the bot, according to his wife. He had cut himself off from it after she, along with his friends, realized he was spiraling into beliefs that were detached from reality
“They developed grandiose beliefs about being on the verge of a major technological breakthrough, alongside classic manic symptoms such as impulsive spending, decreased need for sleep and, at the peak, auditory hallucinations,” said Sakata. “What stood out clinically was that the chatbot interactions did not generate the illness, but appeared to scaffold and reinforce beliefs that were already becoming pathological.”
Sad ending. Crazy how extremism works.
We invented a machine that tells you what you want to hear. Should be fine.
Makes me wonder if something like this happened in the Whitehouse, and now we're bombing Iran.