A corporate recruiter in Toronto who spent 3 weeks convinced by ChatGPT that he was essentially Tony Stark from Iron Man, agreed to share his transcript after breaking free of the delusion.
Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.
Submitted 4 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Ofc the NYTimes feeds into the “AI” grift with this anthropomorphic BS.
Computers don’t have “delusions”. They make statistical computations on data from the internet that have no inherent relationship to facts, reality, etc. Thus they’re untrustable and unreliable.
BertramDitore@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Yeah, it’s really frustrating that we’re watching the grift in real time, and influential outlets like the NYTimes are making all the predicable mistakes and further inflating the bubble to the point where I’m starting to think it won’t be allowed to pop. It feels like there’s nothing we can do about it, because enough people have slurped up the slop and are convinced they already can’t live without it.
I argue with coworkers every day about the useless generated shit they put in front of me. I argue with friends who believe the grifters have their interests in mind. I’ve started arguing with executives at my company who are hinting that everyone has to start using LLMs. I argue with anyone any time they mischaracterize ChatGPT as AI and not an LLM. I argue with my colleagues who work in environmental sciences that they of all people should understand the practical harms these tools are causing.
It’s an uphill battle, and I feel like we’ve already lost. It’s exhausting seeing the direction we’re going, knowing it’s the wrong way to go, and yet being stuck on the stupid train going there.