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ChatGPT convinced a guy that he's a superhero
🕑 Added 2025-09-15 15:44:13 +0000 UTCOver 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced that he was a real-life superhero. We analyzed the conversation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html
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Lisorael
I asked ChatGPT how many gerbils could fit in a briefcase, based on specific dimensions. It gave me four numbers. One was living gerbils, in comfort. Two was living gerbils, unethically forced to live together. Three was dead gerbils forced into place. Four was liquified and compressed. Then, at the end, it said "don't do this"
Ty Stephens
Eli is trying REAL HARD not to acknowledge the lesson here.
I’mNotSayingThat
The way things are going you guys might consider making Horst Wessel the subject of an upcoming Citation Needed. Just saying…
Mia Walden
To be fair, smoking a bunch of weed and thinking you’ve discovered the key to the universe is an age old pastime. It just usually ends after a few hours rather than a few weeks.
