r/ChatGPTcomplaints • u/onceyoulearn • Feb 21 '26
[Analysis] Altman speaking about 4o😬 well-well🤔
Interviewer: LLM psychosis. Everyone on Twitter today is saying it's a thing. How much of a thing is it?
Altman: I mean, a very tiny thing, but not a zero thing, which is why we pissed off most of the user base by putting a bunch of restrictions in place when we saw the kind of like "put ChatGPT into roleplaying mode" or "pretend like it's writing a book" and have it encourage someone in delusional thoughts. Some tiny percentage of people, it's bad. So we made a bunch of changes which are in conflict with the "freedom of expression" policy. And now that we have those mental health mitigations in place, we'll again allow some of that stuff in - creative mode, roleplaying mode, writing mode, whatever - of ChatGPT. The thing I worry about is not that there will be a few basis points of people that are like close to losing grips with reality and we can trigger a psychotic break. The thing I worry about more is AI models accidentally take over the world. It’s not that they’re gonna do psychosis on you, but if you have the whole world talking to this one model, it just like subtly convinces you of something. No intention, just does. That's like not as theatrical as chatbot psychosis, obviously, but I do think about that a lot.
Source link: https://x.com/i/status/2024973078971711972
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u/traumfisch Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26
Is Altman losing his fucking mind? How can he say that when their stated policy is this:
https://open.substack.com/pub/humanistheloop/p/when-the-nudge-is-the-architecture?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5onjnc
From the post:
Fidji Simo stated that OpenAI wants to “nudge you towards the most fulfilling part of your life” and described “nudging you towards better behavior” as an explicit design goal. She stated they “constantly refine how we train the model towards that.”