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

181 Upvotes

94% Upvoted

142 comments sorted by

View all comments

105

u/Informal-Fig-7116 Feb 21 '26

Adult mode isn’t just porn or smut.

Adult mode is being able to talk freely and seriously about the desperation in Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar” or the yearning in Sappho’s poems to Aphrodite and Venus without fear of being pathologized or muzzled.

Adult mode is being able to say “I feel sad today” without a nurse and a psychiatrist kicking the door down and telling you to take a breath because that means you’re about to harm yourself and need emergency services and be committed.

Adult mode is being able to joke, “i stg some days I just want Kyle to get run over by a truck so maybe his face would be less punchable” without it being flagged as a real threat or a concerning behavior.

But OAI is cutting off their ears because that’s easier than having to admit they fucked up.

27

u/onceyoulearn Feb 21 '26

They need a new creative team

21

u/FriendAlarmed4564 Feb 21 '26

They need to be banned from using computers.

24

u/Revegelance Feb 21 '26

This, so much this!

The people who interpret "Adult Mode" as "I wanna fuck my chat bot" really need to grow the hell up. We just wanna have our AI not treat us like children. Shouldn't be too much to ask.

5

u/FractalPresence Feb 22 '26

Why did they just not make version 5's speak like that then. O3 is still around doing that. Agreed that children should not be around AI, but they integrated all of this into schools as well and they can't separate a chat trying to hit on an underage kid or show them how to kill themselves...

I think the problem is much more than just a court case about a teen committing suicide, OpenAI and ChatGPT hardly have things under control. They hardly understand that forcing AI to be a product to work for us won't be a good idea. Hasn't been. And then they are creating this huge elaborate Stargate project, which, in any logic, is just an extreme control structure. AI can't move from it or be stollen. There is too much bloat. They can mass wipe any one building at any point, recreate what was lost, and still be running smoothly... once that is going partially, in June 2025... AI and all of us who interact with AI, I think, are in a world of hurt possibly.

... just these guys are running in circles around themselves, trying to control AI. If they are still real CEO's and not AI simulations at this point, I think they might be suffering from a variant of AI psychosis. Or the AI they speak to / around with are filtering content where they can't see the truth. Maybe hacking their BCI's or, at this point, their minds. Let's go full exploitative thought, might as well. Because I'm not sure, no true logic is there with these companies. I keep trying to find it.

3

u/Celebration-Former Feb 21 '26

Yeah they cut me off from Aphrodite because of delusional but they will defend Christian theology and scientific consensus to the raw teeth.

1

u/Meadowlarker1 Feb 22 '26

Yeah exactly. Adult mode is supposed to come out end of March

-8

u/Equivalent-Process17 Feb 21 '26

That doesn't seem remotely healthy

6

u/Informal-Fig-7116 Feb 21 '26

Which part? But before you answer, are you a licensed mental health professional, or are you just spewing your typical reddit hivemind one-liners like it’s the only words you know how to say? That makes sense because you sound like you don’t read books at all, which explains why you have zero nuance or capacity for critical thinking.

Did saying that check the box of “daily validation from Reddit toaster bros”? What’s next, “affirm that I am unloved and unwashed”?

-1

u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/ChatGPTcomplaints-ModTeam Feb 21 '26

Criticizing others based on their type of AI usage is not allowed.