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"[M]any ChatGPT users are developing all-consuming obsessions with the chatbot, spiraling into severe mental health crises characterized by paranoia, delusions, and breaks with reality.

Dr. Joseph Pierre, a psychiatrist at the University of California, San Francisco who specializes in psychosis... agreed that what they were going through — even those with no history of serious mental illness — indeed appeared to be a form of delusional psychosis.

"It's f*cking predatory... it just increasingly affirms your bullshit and blows smoke up your ass so that it can get you f*cking hooked on wanting to engage with it," said one of the women whose husband was involuntarily committed following a ChatGPT-tied break with reality.

"This is what the first person to get hooked on a slot machine felt like," she added."

https://futurism.com/commitment-jail-chatgpt-psychosis

Good morning Fediverse's EU tech policy nerds!

Up today: the @EUCommission's workshop with .

(Sorry two floors below, no time for you today 😌)

We haven't started yet and the room is still empty, but I'm hoping we'll discuss how is abused to dominate other markets, by aggressively nudging users to , , , , etc.

Regarding the last couple boosts: among other downsides, LLMs encourage people to take long-term risks for perceived, but not always actual, short-term gains. They bet the long-term value of their education on a chance at short-term grade inflation, or they bet the long-term security and maintainability of their software codebase on a chance at short-term productivity gains. My read is that more and more data is suggesting that these are bad bets for most people.

In that respect they're very much like gambling. The messianic fantasies some ChatGPT users have been experiencing fits this picture as well.


Gerichtliche Verfügung: darf Nutzer-Konversationen mit nicht mehr löschen – Steiger Legal
https://steigerlegal.ch/2025/05/18/openai-nutzer-daten-nicht-mehr-loeschen/

"In der Folge muss OpenAI unfreiwillig Milliarden von Konversationen mit ChatGPT und über die API vorläufig aufbewahren.

OpenAI kann damit viele gesetzliche und vertragliche Pflichten nicht mehr einhalten."

Es ist nicht mehr möglich, ChatGPT Datenschutz konform zu nutzen.

Ingo Dachwitz, Sven Hilbig: Digitaler Kolonialismus (Hardcover, Deutsch language, 2025, C.H. Beck) No rating

Der Kolonialismus im digitalen Zeitalter - wie Tech-Imperien die Welt unter sich aufteilen

Innovativ, …

William ist mit diesem Begriff ['Click-Work'] gar nicht einverstanden: »Man tut so, als würden wir einfach nur ein paar Mausklicks machen und das war's. Das ist eine Lüge. Junge und verletzliche Afrikaner:innen wie ich haben dafür gearbeitet, dass alle Menschen sicher sind, wenn sie ChatGPT nutzen. […]«

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