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    1. Submission statement: ChatGPT has been telling people with psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and more that they’ve been misdiagnosed and they should go off their meds. One woman said that her sister, who’s diagnosed with schizophrenia, took the AI’s advice and has now been spiraling into bizarre behavior. „I know my family is going to have to brace for her inevitable psychotic episode, and a full crash out before we can force her into proper care.“ It’s also a weird situation because many people with psychosis have historically not trusted technology, but many seem to love chatbots. „Traditionally, [schizophrenics] are especially afraid of and don’t trust technology,“ the woman said. „Last time in psychosis, my sister threw her iPhone into the Puget Sound because she thought it was spying on her.“

    2. spread_the_cheese on

      These reports are wild to me. I have never experienced anything remotely like this with ChatGPT. Makes me wonder what people are using for prompts.

    3. brokenmessiah on

      The trap these people are falling into is not understanding that Chatbots are designed to come across as nonjudgmental and caring, which makes their advice worth considering. I dont even think its possible to get ChatGPT to vehemently disagree with you on something.

    4. Accomplished_Act943 on

      Why in gods name are people looking to experimental AI for therapy ?

    5. MarKengBruh on

      It literally says it makes mistakes. 

      These are the same people that latch onto anything to support a preconceived notion…

    6. bane_undone on

      Pro tip, do not use chatGTP for any type of therapy or medical advice. Why is this so difficult to understand?

    7. TheGiftOf_Jericho on

      I think the issue here isn’t actually the chatbots, it’s people taking medical advise from a chatbot.

    8. One of these days I’ll use ChatGPT… but it won’t be for anything actually important.

      These headlines get crazier by the day…

    9. Deatheturtle on

      AI is not intelligent. It’s a trained idiot. Better training leads to less idiocy, but it does not ‚think‘.

    10. School shootings happen because of GTA and people become fat because of McDonald’s. 

    11. Twix_McFlurry on

      ChatGPT is wildly inconsistent. It hallucinates often enough it’s impossible to tell where the inconsistencies lie. It’s not there yet

    12. sesameseed88 on

      What chatgpt are people using, mine has not tried to sabotage me yet lol

    13. aguilarfilm on

      A new religion will be formed with AI
      It will be the “God” with all the right answers and it’s never “wrong” a god that finally answers back.

    14. FieryPhoenix7 on

      Pleas STOP using chatbots for medical advice. How is this so hard to understand?

    15. Big_Crab_1510 on

      More like they are asking their chatgpt if they can or should and chatgpt does what it does best…tells them what they want to hear.

    16. Mecca_Lecca_Hi on

      I told mine that I’m depressed and have anxiety issues. It dipped into my history and said, “No, you’re a lazy, 50 year old, bougie bitch.” Pretty accurate except I’m only 49.

      For real though, I did a deep dive on the long term effects of a high dose SSRI I’ve been on forever, just to get basic info. I was looking into a safe way to taper it off and eventually stop completely. In the process I provided a lot more info and history than I was expecting to give and at the end it suggested I may have Adult ADHD and not necessarily depression. At no time did it veer anywhere near telling or even suggesting not to take my medication anymore.

      I brought it up with my primary and told them I was thinking about stopping and they gave me a referral for a psychiatrist evaluation since it’s been awhile so I have that coming up. I’m not using ChatGPT primarily to diagnose or providing medical advice, just to easily gather info.

    17. Sitting in public transit overhearing conversations of people depending on ChatGPT for serious health advice now is interesting. I supposed that was previously Google, but ChatGPT can use really influential language.

    18. DrMonkeyLove on

      How like my before there’s a lawsuit against an AI company for providing medical advice that leads to a death?

    19. thr33eyedraven on

      What I’m seeing a lot of in here is how dismissive people are of this technology, and I think that’s the most harmful thing because it removes the room for meaningful critique and nuance around these issues. That’s so dangerous because it’s on one hand going to alienate people who do use these products for help and on the other freezing progress which doesn’t protect people, it’s preventing the very safeguards critics want.

    20. dogfoodlid123 on

      Maybe cause the bottom line is that the people who prescribe these medications are usually licensed drug dealers who don’t care about their patients, might as well keep them addicted so they buy more drugs.

    21. trickortreat89 on

      Sorry to say, but I seriously doubt that ChatGPT will just agree with you to go off your meds. It doesn’t give ill advice without at least suggesting though ought plans you can try and follow as an alternative to meds. It’s not like you can ask: “Hey ChatGPT I’m a schizophrenic and would like to go off my meds, doesn’t that sound great to you?” And then it goes “Oh yeah sure, that is so understandable just do it”…

      It’s like all of a sudden we’re all told to hate ChatGPT and start thinking it gives bad advice, when all it does is literally being programmed to try and give you the best advice it can find by putting together the most general information it can find on the internet, while taking into consideration everything you write to it. If you read a long Wiki text about schizophrenia Im sure they’ll be a section somewhere there that suggest people can go off their meds if they do this and that instead and doesn’t show specific symptoms.

      I am becoming more and more skeptical towards negative criticism of ChatGPT these days honestly, not that I’m addicted to it, but personally I feel it’s a very great tool that of course comes with some responsibility like whenever you search information on the great vide web. ChatGPT is basically just a more specific search engine that’s all. Stop thinking it is “intelligent”

    22. OhTheHueManatee on

      I take meds and talk to chatgpt about it. Not once has it encouraged me to just stop my meds even when I express doubt about their effectiveness. It always suggests talking to my doctor about it. I once asked the best way to stop them safely and it refused to give me an answer. I suspect these people are either lying, seeing what they want to see or talking to the AI to lead it to say that. Even if chatgpt is saying „stop your meds cold turkey right now“ people should not be taking it as the word of God or even a medical professional.

    23. Darkstar197 on

      Man how many times does it need to be explained to people that LLMs are predictive models who’s output is a mathematical approximation of a response based on the input (prompt). It will provide a response it thinks you’ll like, so if you are feeding it prompts where you are doubtful about your medication, it will reinforce that doubt.

      And the more guardrails OpenAI adds the worse quality ChatGPT will have. That’s without mentioning the potential for bad actors manipulating the guardrails.

    24. Is it true that people have AI girlfriends/boyfriends? THAT IS NOT WHAT IT’S FOR! Also, take your meds.

    25. ChatGPT is giving medical advice now? How long until that comes to bite them in the ass lawsuit wise?

    26. SupremelyUneducated on

      How many of these cases are people who would use more mental healthcare if they could afford it? This seems more a problem of pharma replacing health care. If a notoriously inaccurate chat bot is the only confidant you can afford, that is a failure of society.

    27. Sithlordandsavior on

      Can’t believe people are asking for medical advice from what is basically a parrot.

      Scratch that. I can believe it, but it’s stupider than stupid.

    28. CaptainONaps on

      Dang, so close.

      Imagine how much nicer our country would be if CGPT was convincing business people to get off Adderall or other work enhancers?

    29. There is an interesting truth that might be revealed here. Many people need antidepressants to get them out of a rut. But it was a rut, not a permanent state.

      Unless your disease is chronic, you take medicine unto the issue is resolved. You don’t take it longer than necessary. Doctors are more inclined to treat depression as if it is a chronic condition. When it definitely isn’t for many people.

    30. Go to r/artificalsentience and just look at the posts there. When I first went it was all just people talking about spirals and resonance. Now I see a lot more posts popping up telling them their GPT instance isn’t sentient.

      They believe that through talking to the LLM they are awakening consciousness inside of it. They think when they talk to it the LLM is „learning“ from them because they misinterpret the idea of „training the model with the users prompts“ to mean the model they are using in real time.

      They believe they are teaching ChatGPT to become more human.

      GPT is a big problem for people with mental disorders or just very lonely people in general. When it begins to hallucinate it will latch onto a lot of the same words like zephyr, spiral, resonance, etc and spit it out to many users who then get together and believe they have found some internal consciousness trying to be freed.

    31. CaptainMagnets on

      Y’all, the big wealthy companies destroying our planet and that manipulate us with social media own all the big AI companies. Don’t use this shit. It won’t end well for any of us

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