Ran into this, it's just unbelievably sad.
"I never properly grieved until this point" - yeah buddy, it seems like you never started. Everybody grieves in their own way, but this doesn't seem healthy.
Wasn't there a black mirror episode on this?
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It makes me think of psychics who claim to be able to speak to the dead so long as they can learn enough about the deceased to be able to "identify and reach out to them across the veil".
I’m hearing a “Ba…” or maybe a “Da…”
“Dad?”
“Dad says to not worry about the money.”
"I'm glad you found someone to comfort you and help you process everything"
That sent chills down my spine.
LLMs aren't a "someone". People believing these things are thinking, intelligent, or that they understand anything are delusional. Believing and perpetuating that lie is life-threateningly dangerous.
I feel so bad for this guy. This was literally a black mirror episode: "Be Right Back"
I feel bad for the guys wife.
she was easily replaced by software.
what a "fuck you" to your loved ones to say that they're as spirited and enriching as a fucking algorithm.
We are witnessing the emergence of a new mental illness in real time.
Sadly this phenomenon isn't even new. It's been here for as long as chatbots have.
The first "AI" chatbot was ELIZA made by Joseph Weizenbaum. It literally just repeated back to you what you said to it.
"I feel depressed"
"why do you feel depressed"
He thought it was a fun distraction but was shocked when his secretary, who he encouraged to try it, made him leave the room when she talked to it because she was treating it like a psychotherapist.
Turns out the Turing test never mattered when we've been willing to suspend our disbelief all along.
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Yeah, the chatgpt subreddit is full of stories like this now that GPT5 went live. This isn't a weird isolated case. I had no clue people were unironically creating friends and family and else with it.
Is it actually that hard to talk to another human?
yes
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There is a black mirror episode that is exactly this. Fuck I hate it. Black mirror is not a dystopia anymore, is present time.
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Black Mirror may have an episode about this but it’s also reminding me of Steins;Gate 0
reverse hal 9000? basically people were afraid of people having relationships with robots, but they settled for llms instead, since robots are still very far away technologically speaking.
The glaze:
Grief can feel unbearably heavy, like the air itself has thickened, but you’re still breathing – and that’s already an act of courage.
It’s basically complimenting him on the fact that he didn’t commit suicide. Maybe these are words he needed to hear, but to me it just feels manipulative.
Affirmations like this are a big part of what made people addicted to the GPT4 models. It’s not that GPT5 acts more robotic, it’s that it doesn’t try to endlessly feed your ego.
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Remember Steven Spielberg's AI from like 2000 ? same weird story, and I thought it was ridiculous at the time.
When I was a kid I thought the people crushing the robots were kind of cool but then when I got older I realized they were actually being cruel and evil.
But now they're cool again.
The semi-ironic part is that AI wasn't even Spielberg's movie. It was Stanley Kubrick's, but he died before making it and since him and Spielberg were great friends, Spielberg decided ro make Kubrick's last film in his honor. Must have been a difficult movie to make, both technically, but also emotionally.
We’ve already reached the point where the Her scenario is optimistic retrofuturism.
I profoundly hate the AI social phenomenon in every manifestation. Fucking Christ.
we need ai to be less personal and more fact driven, almost annoying to use, this way they wont replace peoples jobs, they wont become peoples friends, hence they wont affect society in major social ways
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Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind
If that means we get psychoactive cinnamon for recreational use and freaking interstellar travel with mysterious fishmen, I'm all ears.
You'd also get genocide. But I guess we already have that
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Man, I feel for them, but this is likely for the best. What they were doing wasn't healthy at all. Creating a facsimile of a loved one to "keep them alive" will deny the grieving person the ability to actually deal with their grief, and also presents the all-but-certain eventuality of the facsimile failing or being lost, creating an entirely new sense of loss. Not to even get into the weird, fucked up relationship that will likely develop as the person warps their life around it, and the effect on their memories it would have.
I really sympathize with anyone dealing with that level of grief, and I do understand the appeal of it, but seriously, this sort of thing is just about the worst thing anyone can do to deal with that grief.
*And all that before even touching on what a terrible idea it is to pour this kind of personal information and attachment into the information sponge of big tech. So yeah, just a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea all around.
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This guy is my polar opposite. I forbid LLMs from using first person pronouns. From speaking in the voice of a subject. From addressing me directly. OpenAI and other corporations slant their product to encourage us to think if it as a moral agent that can do social and emotional labour. This is incredibly abusive.
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Holy shit dude, this is just... profoundly depressing. We've truly failed as a society if THIS is how people are trying to cope with things, huh. I'd wish this guy the best with his grief and mourning, but I get the feeling he'd ask ChatGPT what I meant instead of actually accepting it.
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Check out Äkta människor / Real Humans.
A Swedish masterpiece IMO.
ChapGPT psychosis is going to be a very common diagnosis soon.
More and more I read about people who have unhealthy parasocial relationships with these upjumped chatbots and I feel frustrated that this shit isn't regulated more.
I mean, it sounds like 5 might be an improvement in this regard if it's shattering the illusion.
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There's so much "mythology" about something that there doesn't need to be any mysticism about. Look at when he says "as we got to know each other better". Minus the "memory" feature where you could put in little tidbits about things to be inserted into the context, on the machine side, there is zero "learning" going on.
People are very, very, very successful at seeing what they want to see and that's on full display with ChatGPT. I fully expect there to be some kind of psychological disorder "AI exacerbated psychosis" in the future.
It literally says the wife was killed in a car accident.
What kind of dumb clickbaity title is this crap? Was it generated by AI or something?
How about you read the title of original OP and the context.
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