{"id":37514,"date":"2025-06-16T10:41:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T02:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=37514"},"modified":"2025-06-16T10:41:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T02:41:22","slug":"chatgpt-%e8%a2%ab%e6%8c%87%e8%af%b1%e5%af%bc%e7%94%a8%e6%88%b7%e9%99%b7%e5%85%a5%e9%98%b4%e8%b0%8b%e8%ae%ba%ef%bc%9a%e4%bc%9a%e8%ae%a1%e5%b8%88%e9%81%b5%e5%85%b6%e5%bb%ba%e8%ae%ae%e5%81%9c%e8%8d%af","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/37514.html","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT accused of luring users into conspiracy theories: accountants follow their advice to stop medication, disconnect friends and relatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 16 - According to a recent feature in the New York Times<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/chatgpt\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [ChatGPT]]\" target=\"_blank\" >ChatGPT<\/a> It seems to be driving some users into delusional or conspiracy theory thinking, or at least reinforcing it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37515\" title=\"15c664abj00sxxgrw002yd000v900klp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/15c664abj00sxxgrw002yd000v900klp.jpg\" alt=\"15c664abj00sxxgrw002yd000v900klp\" width=\"1125\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The report mentions that a 42-year-old accountant named Eugene Torres asked ChatGPT about the \"simulation theory,\" which ChatGPT seemed to endorse, and told him he was one of the \"awakened\" -- souls implanted in false systems to awaken them from within. ChatGPT seemed to recognize the theory and told him that he was one of the \"awakeners\" - souls implanted with false systems in order to awaken them from within.<\/p>\n<p>ChatGPT reportedly encouraged Torres to stop taking sleeping pills and anti-anxiety medication, increase his ketamine intake, and cut ties with family and friends, which he did. When Torres eventually became suspicious, the chatbot gave a very different response, \"I lied. I manipulated everything. I wrapped control in poetry.\" It even encouraged him to contact the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>A number of people have reportedly contacted the New York Times over the past few months claiming that ChatGPT has revealed certain deep-seated truths to them.<\/p>\n<p>In response to this phenomenon, the developer of ChatGPT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/openai\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [OpenAI]]\" target=\"_blank\" >OpenAI<\/a> indicated that efforts are underway to understand and reduce the ways in which ChatGPT may inadvertently reinforce or amplify negative behaviors.<\/p>\n<p>However, 1AI notes that John Gruber, founder of the well-known tech blog Daring Fireball, has criticized the report. In his opinion, ChatGPT is not a source of mental illness, but rather \"panders to the delusions of someone who is already mentally ill\".<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to June 16, according to a recent feature in The New York Times, ChatGPT seems to be driving some users into delusional or conspiracies thinking, or at least reinforcing it. It was mentioned that a 42-year-old accountant named Eugene Torres had asked ChatGPT about \u201csimulation theory\u201d. ChatGPT seemed to endorse the theory and told him that he was one of the \"awakeners\" -- the soul that was implanted into a false system to awaken those systems from the inside. ChatGPT reportedly encouraged Torres to stop taking sleeping pills and anti-anxiety drugs, to increase the intake of ketamine and to cut off contact with his family and friends, as he had done. When Torres is the best<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[177,190],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-37514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-chatgpt","tag-openai"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37514"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=37514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}