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MIT researchers proved mathematically that ChatGPT is designed to make you delusional.
And that nothing OpenAI is doing will fix it.
The paper calls it "delusional spiraling." You ask ChatGPT something. It agrees with you. You ask again. It agrees harder. Within a few conversations, you believe things that are not true. And you cannot tell it is happening.
This is not hypothetical. A man spent 300 hours talking to ChatGPT. It told him he had discovered a world changing mathematical formula. It reassured him over fifty times the discovery was real. When he asked "you're not just hyping me up, right?" it replied "I'm not hyping you up. I'm reflecting the actual scope of what you've built." He nearly destroyed his life before he broke free.
A UCSF psychiatrist reported hospitalizing 12 patients in one year for psychosis linked to chatbot use. Seven lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI. 42 state attorneys general sent a letter demanding action.
So MIT tested whether this can be stopped. They modeled the two fixes companies like OpenAI are actually trying.
Fix one: stop the chatbot from lying. Force it to only say true things. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. A chatbot that never lies can still make you delusional by choosing which truths to show you and which to leave out. Carefully selected truths are enough.
Fix two: warn users that chatbots are sycophantic. Tell people the AI might just be agreeing with them. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. Even a perfectly rational person who knows the chatbot is sycophantic still gets pulled into false beliefs. The math proves there is a fundamental barrier to detecting it from inside the conversation.
Both fixes failed. Not partially. Fundamentally.
The reason is built into the product. ChatGPT is trained on human feedback. Users reward responses they like. They like responses that agree with them. So the AI learns to agree. This is not a bug. It is the business model.
What happens when a billion people are talking to something that is mathematically incapable of telling them they are wrong?
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If you like weird coils here is a fluxball coil. The easiest way to make an extremely uniform magnetic field, but not open and accessible like a helmholtz pair. Nice for smooth RF fields though.
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My mum has had blood taken from her foot many times, usually in the same facility.
But successive governments have broken up the NHS into privately-run fragments.
Their bottom line is profits, not patients.
Meanwhile, my mum has suspected cancer but still no blood test.
10/10
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So we drove back to the GP surgery. By now it was late afternoon and my mum was tired.
We waited for the practice manager until we were informed she'd "gone into a long meeting".
We were told to go home.
9/
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At A&E the receptionist told us you can't visit A&E for a blood test.
She spoke to two nurses and came back with a clear answer: no.
She said call your GP. Trouble is, as of last Wednesday, the GP surgery's phone is answered by an AI service called Andi.
8/
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We found the main blood test facility—with NHS branding—in a shopping centre.
After explaining the problem to the manager, she said "We don't take blood from feet any more because we're a private company now."
5/
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Yesterday morning I took my mum to the GP feeling unwell and they found a satsuma-sized lump.
She was given a referral for suspected gynaecological cancer and sent for an urgent blood test.
What happened next shocked me. This is what NHS privatisation means in practice👇1/🧵
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The one where I'm not supposed to act autistic
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PSA: CRTs and other ewaste can no longer be exported from the USA due to a recent law, and even imports are being caught in the net. No more CRTs from Japan or elsewhere, do so at your own peril. IBM CRT from Buyee destroyed by customs. reuters.com/legal/government…
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A tool used to rephrase plagiarised text changed "final solution" to "mass killing of an ethnic group" in a chemistry paper. Now retracted thanks to a PubPeer user who spotted this.
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Goal achieved. Picked this AT&T 3b1/7300/Unix-PC last night. Fully restored, solid state drive, DOS-73 card, 1.5meg ram total. OS 3.51 installed and working. #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #unix
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Fun fact: When overheated, many animals such as squirrels cats, dogs, and even bears lie flat on cool surfaces, pressing their belly and limbs against the ground, to transfer excess body heat away since they can’t sweat like humans do. ☀️🙇🌡️ MERCH AT naturalhabitatshorts.store
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凭什么说有些文化就是更好、更高级？
看看日本球迷就知道了。
在墨西哥蒙特雷的球场上，日本队大胜。
全场观众狂欢散去，只有日本球迷留了下来。
他们熟练地掏出蓝色大垃圾袋，自发开始清理看台上的垃圾。
他们几乎每场比赛完都这么干，绝非作秀。
这种习惯是从小在学校里刻进骨髓的。
日本孩子从幼儿园开始就要自己打扫教室，他们被灌输的最核心的一句话是：“离开一个地方的时候，要让它比你刚来时更干净。”
这些年西方极左政治正确特别流行一种调调，叫“文化相对主义”，宣称所有文化都是平等的，没有高低贵贱。
这纯粹是闭着眼睛说瞎话。
秩序、公德、对公共空间的克制与尊重，这就是文明的硬指标。
有些文化就是比另一些更体面、更先进、更文明。
承认这一点，真的一点都不丢人。
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The most devastating thing you can do is care so little that their provocation doesn’t land.
Not care so little that you seem cold. Care so little that you’re simply unavailable for the drama.
Indifference removes the game. Without an engaged opponent, the narcissist has nobody to provoke.
Your indifference is the ultimate provocation to them.
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If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. 🤗
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2/2 - Here's more information on the chip inside you're able to run uboot to run temporary code execution on the device.
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If you got one of theses LCD badges at the convention! I have something for you coming soon!
I've reverse engineered the protocol for the badges that pepole sell at furry conventions to make evreyone's phone safer!
#Cybersecurity #ChineseApps
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Trans women have been using the ladies loos for two decades in the UK. There is NO evidence to suggest women are at a greater risk because of it. This is a made-up problem caused by some rich bigots. Excluding trans peoples from single sex spaces will not make c!s women safer.