OpenAI says hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users may show signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20251027183454/https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-psychosis-and-self-harm-update/
OpenAI says hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users may show signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20251027183454/https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-psychosis-and-self-harm-update/
It’s extrapolated from their own user count:
Sure, but I mean the more important numbers, which would be how this compares to a control sample, or at least comparing it to the overall population. Otherwise this could be less psychosis than expected.
I feel like science denialist cultism is a form of psychosis the vast majority of people seem to have, so measuring it every week from a few hundred thousand people is surprisingly low