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This reminds me of someone...

As Rolling Stone reports, users on Reddit are sharing how AI has led their loved ones to embrace a range of alarming delusions, often mixing spiritual mania and supernatural fantasies.

(Full article in Futurism)

I saw something awhile ago about some of the heavier users becoming emotionally dependant on ChatGPT. Their input would grow more personalized and affectionate, they'd have withdrawal symptoms if prevented from using it, and were assigning a personality to it that made them "distressed" if it suddenly changed the tone of output.

And it's a separate thing, but it's been noticed that the ads circulating on reddit have been specifically targeting college students in a "WHY NOT LET US HELP YOU CHEAT" kind of way that seems especially blatant, lol.

There are ads for OpenAI?