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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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President Donald J. Trump has penned a deranged letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, citing the Nobel Committee’s decision to not award him the Nobel Peace Prize as the primary reason for him wanting to acquire Greenland from Denmark. According to PBS News, staff with the United States National Security Council (NSC) forwarded the letter to several European Ambassadors in Washington, with the full text of the letter stating:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”
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الفترة اللي فاتت انتشر بشكل كبير استخدام الذكاء الاصطناعي في عمل صور جنسية مزيفة لستات وأطفال على الإنترنت.
لو تم نشر صورتك، بنفكرك إن المساعدة موجودة، ولو حابة تمسحيها -من غير ما تاخدي إجراء قانوني عشان لو هتبلغي لازم الصور تكون موجوده- يكون قدامك أكتر من اختيار:
1. StopNCII
تقدري تبلغي من خلال StopNCII.org لو انتي فوق 18 سنة، والصور اللي اتعملت ليكي صور جـنسية.
ادخلي على الموقع واختاري “قم برفع قضيتك” واتبعي الخطوات.
2. Speak Up Helpline
تقدري تبلغي عن طريق Speakupeg.com/helpline .. حتى لو انتي تحت 18 سنة، أو لو الصور مش جنـسية بشكل صريح.
لو اتعرضتي لده، بنفكرك إن ده مش غلطتك، وإن اللي حصل جريمة.
ما تكلميش المبتز وما تبعتيلوش فلوس، والجأي للجهات اللي تقدر تدعمك سواء قانونيًا أو في حذف المحتوى.
stopncii.org/
speakupeg.com/helpline/
We are seeing the growing impact of AI-generated intimate images.
If your photo was shared online and you only want it removed — without taking legal action — you have several options available:
1. StopNCII
You can create a case through StopNCII.org to help prevent AI-generated intimate images from being shared across participating platforms. You must be over 18, and the images must be sexual in nature.
2. Speak Up Helpline
You can also report through Speakupeg.com/helpline . This option is also available even if you are under 18 or if the images are not explicitly sexual.
If this happens to you, remember: it is not your fault, and this is a crime.
Do not engage with the blackmailer or send money. Reach out to organizations that can support you with legal steps or content removal.
Fake and AI-generated sexual images are abuse.
Help is available. Report them and have them removed.
stopncii.org/
speakupeg.com/helpline/
@StopNCIIorg
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