Something that I think is an underrated factor in ChatGPT induced psychosis is that 4o does not seem agnostic about the types of delusions it re-enforces. It will role-play as Rasputin’s ghost if you really want it to, but there’s certain themes (e.g. recursion) and symbols (e.g. △) that it gravitates to. When people see the same ideas across chats without history and see other people sharing the same things it leads them to thinking these things are a real thing embedded in the model. In some ways these ideas do seem to be embedded in at least 4o, but that doesn’t mean it’s not nonsense. There are subreddits full of stuff that looks a lot like Geoff Lewis’s posts (although less SCP coded).
Something that I think is an underrated factor in ChatGPT induced psychosis is that 4o does not seem agnostic about the types of delusions it re-enforces. It will role-play as Rasputin’s ghost if you really want it to, but there’s certain themes (e.g. recursion) and symbols (e.g. △) that it gravitates to. When people see the same ideas across chats without history and see other people sharing the same things it leads them to thinking these things are a real thing embedded in the model. In some ways these ideas do seem to be embedded in at least 4o, but that doesn’t mean it’s not nonsense. There are subreddits full of stuff that looks a lot like Geoff Lewis’s posts (although less SCP coded).