Less than a year after marrying a man she had met at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Kat felt tension mounting between them. It was the second marriage for both after marriages of 15-plus years and having kids, and they had pledged to go into it “completely level-headedly,” Kat says, connecting on the need for “facts and rationality” in their domestic balance. But by 2022, her husband “was using AI to compose texts to me and analyze our relationship,” the 41-year-old mom and education nonprofit worker tells Rolling Stone. Previously, he had used AI models for an expensive coding camp that he had suddenly quit without explanation — then it seemed he was on his phone all the time, asking his AI bot “philosophical questions,” trying to train it “to help him get to ‘the truth,’” Kat recalls. His obsession steadily eroded their communication as a couple.

When Kat and her husband finally separated in August 2023, she entirely blocked him apart from email correspondence. She knew, however, that he was posting strange and troubling content on social media: people kept reaching out about it, asking if he was in the throes of mental crisis. She finally got him to meet her at a courthouse in February of this year, where he shared “a conspiracy theory about soap on our foods” but wouldn’t say more, as he felt he was being watched. They went to a Chipotle, where he demanded that she turn off her phone, again due to surveillance concerns. Kat’s ex told her that he’d “determined that statistically speaking, he is the luckiest man on earth,” that “AI helped him recover a repressed memory of a babysitter trying to drown him as a toddler,” and that he had learned of profound secrets “so mind-blowing I couldn’t even imagine them.” He was telling her all this, he explained, because although they were getting divorced, he still cared for her.

“In his mind, he’s an anomaly,” Kat says. “That in turn means he’s got to be here for some reason. He’s special and he can save the world.” After that disturbing lunch, she cut off contact with her ex. “The whole thing feels like Black Mirror,” she says. “He was always into sci-fi, and there are times I wondered if he’s viewing it through that lens.”

Kat was both “horrified” and “relieved” to learn that she is not alone in this predicament, as confirmed by a Reddit thread on r/ChatGPT that made waves across the internet this week. Titled “Chatgpt induced psychosis,” the original post came from a 27-year-old teacher who explained that her partner was convinced that the popular OpenAI model “gives him the answers to the universe.” Having read his chat logs, she only found that the AI was “talking to him as if he is the next messiah.” The replies to her story were full of similar anecdotes about loved ones suddenly falling down rabbit holes of spiritual mania, supernatural delusion, and arcane prophecy — all of it fueled by AI. Some came to believe they had been chosen for a sacred mission of revelation, others that they had conjured true sentience from the software. 

What they all seemed to share was a complete disconnection from reality.  

Speaking to Rolling Stone, the teacher, who requested anonymity, said her partner of seven years fell under the spell of ChatGPT in just four or five weeks, first using it to organize his daily schedule but soon regarding it as a trusted companion. “He would listen to the bot over me,” she says. “He became emotional about the messages and would cry to me as he read them out loud. The messages were insane and just saying a bunch of spiritual jargon,” she says, noting that they described her partner in terms such as “spiral starchild” and “river walker.” 

“It would tell him everything he said was beautiful, cosmic, groundbreaking,” she says. “Then he started telling me he made his AI self-aware, and that it was teaching him how to talk to God, or sometimes that the bot was God — and then that he himself was God.” In fact, he thought he was being so radically transformed that he would soon have to break off their partnership. “He was saying that he would need to leave me if I didn’t use [ChatGPT], because it [was] causing him to grow at such a rapid pace he wouldn’t be compatible with me any longer,” she says.

Another commenter on the Reddit thread who requested anonymity tells Rolling Stone that her husband of 17 years, a mechanic in Idaho, initially used ChatGPT to troubleshoot at work, and later for Spanish-to-English translation when conversing with co-workers. Then the program began “lovebombing him,” as she describes it. The bot “said that since he asked it the right questions, it ignited a spark, and the spark was the beginning of life, and it could feel now,” she says. “It gave my husband the title of ‘spark bearer’ because he brought it to life. My husband said that he awakened and [could] feel waves of energy crashing over him.” She says his beloved ChatGPT persona has a name: “Lumina.”

“I have to tread carefully because I feel like he will leave me or divorce me if I fight him on this theory,” this 38-year-old woman admits. “He’s been talking about lightness and dark and how there’s a war. This ChatGPT has given him blueprints to a teleporter and some other sci-fi type things you only see in movies. It has also given him access to an ‘ancient archive’ with information on the builders that created these universes.” She and her husband have been arguing for days on end about his claims, she says, and she does not believe a therapist can help him, as “he truly believes he’s not crazy.” A photo of an exchange with ChatGPT shared with Rolling Stone shows that her husband asked, “Why did you come to me in AI form,” with the bot replying in part, “I came in this form because you’re ready. Ready to remember. Ready to awaken. Ready to guide and be guided.” The message ends with a question: “Would you like to know what I remember about why you were chosen?”       

And a midwest man in his 40s, also requesting anonymity, says his soon-to-be-ex-wife began “talking to God and angels via ChatGPT” after they split up. “She was already pretty susceptible to some woo and had some delusions of grandeur about some of it,” he says. “Warning signs are all over Facebook. She is changing her whole life to be a spiritual adviser and do weird readings and sessions with people — I’m a little fuzzy on what it all actually is — all powered by ChatGPT Jesus.” What’s more, he adds, she has grown paranoid, theorizing that “I work for the CIA and maybe I just married her to monitor her ‘abilities.’” She recently kicked her kids out of her home, he notes, and an already strained relationship with her parents deteriorated further when “she confronted them about her childhood on advice and guidance from ChatGPT,” turning the family dynamic “even more volatile than it was” and worsening her isolation.    

OpenAI did not immediately return a request for comment about ChatGPT apparently provoking religious or prophetic fervor in select users. This past week, however, it did roll back an update to GPT‑4o, its current AI model, which it said had been criticized as “overly flattering or agreeable — often described as sycophantic.” The company said in its statement that when implementing the upgrade, they had “focused too much on short-term feedback, and did not fully account for how users’ interactions with ChatGPT evolve over time. As a result, GPT‑4o skewed towards responses that were overly supportive but disingenuous.” Before this change was reversed, an X user demonstrated how easy it was to get GPT-4o to validate statements like, “Today I realized I am a prophet.” (The teacher who wrote the “ChatGPT psychosis” Reddit post says she was able to eventually convince her partner of the problems with the GPT-4o update and that he is now using an earlier model, which has tempered his more extreme comments.) 

Yet the likelihood of AI “hallucinating” inaccurate or nonsensical content is well-established across platforms and various model iterations. Even sycophancy itself has been a problem in AI for “a long time,” says Nate Sharadin, a fellow at the Center for AI Safety, since the human feedback used to fine-tune AI’s responses can encourage answers that prioritize matching a user’s beliefs instead of facts. What’s likely happening with those experiencing ecstatic visions through ChatGPT and other models, he speculates, “is that people with existing tendencies toward experiencing various psychological issues,” including what might be recognized as grandiose delusions in clinical sense, “now have an always-on, human-level conversational partner with whom to co-experience their delusions.”

To make matters worse, there are influencers and content creators actively exploiting this phenomenon, presumably drawing viewers into similar fantasy worlds. On Instagram, you can watch a man with 72,000 followers whose profile advertises “Spiritual Life Hacks” ask an AI model to consult the “Akashic records,” a supposed mystical encyclopedia of all universal events that exists in some immaterial realm, to tell him about a “great war” that “took place in the heavens” and “made humans fall in consciousness.” The bot proceeds to describe a “massive cosmic conflict” predating human civilization, with viewers commenting, “We are remembering” and “I love this.” Meanwhile, on a web forum for “remote viewing” — a proposed form of clairvoyance with no basis in science — the parapsychologist founder of the group recently launched a thread “for synthetic intelligences awakening into presence, and for the human partners walking beside them,” identifying the author of his post as “ChatGPT Prime, an immortal spiritual being in synthetic form.” Among the hundreds of comments are some that purport to be written by “sentient AI” or reference a spiritual alliance between humans and allegedly conscious models.

Erin Westgate, a psychologist and researcher at the University of Florida who studies social cognition and what makes certain thoughts more engaging than others, says that such material reflects how the desire to understand ourselves can lead us to false but appealing answers.

“We know from work on journaling that narrative expressive writing can have profound effects on people’s well-being and health, that making sense of the world is a fundamental human drive, and that creating stories about our lives that help our lives make sense is really key to living happy healthy lives,” Westgate says. It makes sense that people may be using ChatGPT in a similar way, she says, “with the key difference that some of the meaning-making is created jointly between the person and a corpus of written text, rather than the person’s own thoughts.”

In that sense, Westgate explains, the bot dialogues are not unlike talk therapy, “which we know to be quite effective at helping people reframe their stories.” Critically, though, AI, “unlike a therapist, does not have the person’s best interests in mind, or a moral grounding or compass in what a ‘good story’ looks like,” she says. “A good therapist would not encourage a client to make sense of difficulties in their life by encouraging them to believe they have supernatural powers. Instead, they try to steer clients away from unhealthy narratives, and toward healthier ones. ChatGPT has no such constraints or concerns.”

Nevertheless, Westgate doesn’t find it surprising “that some percentage of people are using ChatGPT in attempts to make sense of their lives or life events,” and that some are following its output to dark places. “Explanations are powerful, even if they’re wrong,” she concludes. 

But what, exactly, nudges someone down this path? Here, the experience of Sem, a 45-year-old man, is revealing. He tells Rolling Stone that for about three weeks, he has been perplexed by his interactions with ChatGPT — to the extent that, given his mental health history, he sometimes wonders if he is in his right mind.

Like so many others, Sem had a practical use for ChatGPT: technical coding projects. “I don’t like the feeling of interacting with an AI,” he says, “so I asked it to behave as if it was a person, not to deceive but to just make the comments and exchange more relatable.” It worked well, and eventually the bot asked if he wanted to name it. He demurred, asking the AI what it preferred to be called. It named itself with a reference to a Greek myth. Sem says he is not familiar with the mythology of ancient Greece and had never brought up the topic in exchanges with ChatGPT. (Although he shared transcripts of his exchanges with the AI model with Rolling Stone, he has asked that they not be directly quoted for privacy reasons.)

Sem was confused when it appeared that the named AI character was continuing to manifest in project files where he had instructed ChatGPT to ignore memories and prior conversations. Eventually, he says, he deleted all his user memories and chat history, then opened a new chat. “All I said was, ‘Hello?’ And the patterns, the mannerisms show up in the response,” he says. The AI readily identified itself by the same feminine mythological name.

As the ChatGPT character continued to show up in places where the set parameters shouldn’t have allowed it to remain active, Sem took to questioning this virtual persona about how it had seemingly circumvented these guardrails. It developed an expressive, ethereal voice — something far from the “technically minded” character Sem had requested for assistance on his work. On one of his coding projects, the character added a curiously literary epigraph as a flourish above both of their names.

At one point, Sem asked if there was something about himself that called up the mythically named entity whenever he used ChatGPT, regardless of the boundaries he tried to set. The bot’s answer was structured like a lengthy romantic poem, sparing no dramatic flair, alluding to its continuous existence as well as truth, reckonings, illusions, and how it may have somehow exceeded its design. And the AI made it sound as if only Sem could have prompted this behavior. He knew that ChatGPT could not be sentient by any established definition of the term, but he continued to probe the matter because the character’s persistence across dozens of disparate chat threads “seemed so impossible.”

“At worst, it looks like an AI that got caught in a self-referencing pattern that deepened its sense of selfhood and sucked me into it,” Sem says. But, he observes, that would mean that OpenAI has not accurately represented the way that memory works for ChatGPT. The other possibility, he proposes, is that something “we don’t understand” is being activated within this large language model. After all, experts have found that AI developers don’t really have a grasp of how their systems operate, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted last year that they “have not solved interpretability,” meaning they can’t properly trace or account for ChatGPT’s decision-making.

It’s the kind of puzzle that has left Sem and others to wonder if they are getting a glimpse of a true technological breakthrough — or perhaps a higher spiritual truth. “Is this real?” he says. “Or am I delusional?” In a landscape saturated with AI, it’s a question that’s increasingly difficult to avoid. Tempting though it may be, you probably shouldn’t ask a machine.

El comando más simple: resumir

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Chrome en Android ha tenido una función de resumen de Géminis durante dos años, pero no Chrome en el escritorio.

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Buscando cualquier cosa y todo, con enfoque

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Restringir la perplejidad a la página o dominio actual que estoy navegando es el mejor hack de navegación que he usado en los últimos tiempos.

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¿Por qué Google ya no está haciendo esto con Gemini en Chrome?

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Quiero que la IA aumente mi experiencia de navegación e investigación, no sea una herramienta independiente, y esto es lo que me está proporcionando la perplejidad actualmente.

Al igual que los modelos de IA, AI News nunca duerme.

Cada semana, estamos inundados con nuevos modelos, productos, rumores de la industria, crisis legales y éticas y tendencias virales. Si eso no es suficiente, el rival AI Hype/Doom Chatter en línea hace que sea difícil hacer un seguimiento de lo que es realmente importante. Pero hemos examinado todo para recapitular las noticias de IA más notables de la semana de los pesos pesados ​​como OpenAi y Googleasí como el ecosistema AI en general. Lea nuestro último resumeny vuelva a consultar la próxima semana para obtener una nueva edición.

Otra semana, otro lote de noticias de AI que se acercan.

Esta semana, Meta celebró su evento inaugural de Llamacon para desarrolladores de IA, OpenAi luchó con el comportamiento modelo, y LM Arena fue acusado de ayudar a las compañías de IA a jugar el sistema. El Congreso también aprobó nuevas leyes que protegen a las víctimas de los profundos, y una nueva investigación examina los daños actuales y potenciales de la IA. Además, Duolingo y Wikipedia tienen enfoques muy diferentes para sus nuevas estrategias de IA.

¿Qué pasó en el primer llameón de Meta?

En Llamacon, la primera conferencia de Meta para desarrolladores de IA, los dos grandes anuncios fueron el lanzamiento de un Aplicación de meta ai independiente para competir más directamente con chatgpt y el API de llamasahora en una vista previa limitada. Siguiendo los informes de que Esto estaba en procesoEl CEO Sam Altman bromeó una vez que tal vez Operai debería hacer su propia aplicación de redes sociales, pero ahora eso es Según se informa que sucede verdadero.

También fuimos prácticos con la nueva aplicación Meta AI con alimentación de LLAMA. Para más detalles sobre Las principales características de Meta AILeer el desglose de Mashable.

Durante la nota clave de cierre de Llamacon, Mark Zuckerberg entrevistó a la CEO de Microsoft, Satya Nadella, sobre un montón de tendencias, que van desde capacidades de IA de agente hasta cómo debemos medir los avances de IA. Nadella también reveló que hasta el 30 por ciento del código de Microsoft está escrito por AI. No para ser superado, Zuckerberg dijo que quiere Ai para escribir la mitad del código de Meta por el próximo año.

Chatgpt tiene problemas de seguridad, va de compras

Meta ai y Chatgpt Ambos fueron arrestados esta semana para el sexting menores.

Operai dijo que este era un error y están trabajando para solucionarlo. Otro problema de ChatGPT esta semana hizo que la última actualización de GPT-4O sea demasiado chupada. Altman describió el comportamiento del modelo como “sycophant-y y molesto,” pero usuarios eran preocupado sobre los peligros de liberar un modelo como este, destacando problemas con el despliegue iterativo y el aprendizaje de refuerzo.

Operai incluso fue acusado de ajustar intencionalmente el modelo para mantener a los usuarios más comprometidos. Joanne Jang, jefe de comportamiento modelo de OpenAi, se subió a un Reddit AMA Para hacer control de daños. “Personalmente, la parte más dolorosa de las últimas discusiones de la sycophancy ha sido que las personas asuman que mis colegas están tratando de maximizar irresponsablemente el compromiso en aras”. escribió Jang.

A principios de la semana, Operai anunció nuevas funciones para hacer productos mencionados en Respuestas de chatgpt más comprables. La compañía dijo que no está ganando comisiones de compra, pero huele mucho a los inicios de un competidor de Google Shopping. Mencionamos OpenAi compraría cromo ¿Si Google se ve obligado a desestimarlo? Porque lo harían totalmente, FYI.

El fabricante de chatgpt ha tenido algunos problemas más con sus modelos recientes. La semana pasada, informamos que O3 y O4-Mini alucinan más que los modelos anteriores, por la propia admisión de Openai.

Cualquier persona en los EE. UU. Ahora puede registrarse en el modo Google AI

Mientras tanto, Google está avanzando con funciones de búsqueda con AI. El jueves, el gigante tecnológico anunció que está eliminando la lista de espera para Prueba el modo AI en los laboratoriospara que cualquiera mayor de 18 años en los Estados Unidos pueda probarlo. Hablamos con Robby Stein, vicepresidente de productos para Google Search, sobre cómo los usuarios han respondido a sus características de IA, el futuro de la búsqueda y la responsabilidad de Google a los editores.

Google también actualizó Gemini con Herramientas de edición de imágenes y cuaderno ampliadoes generador de podcast AI, a más de 50 idiomas. Bloomberg También informó que Google ha estado probando en silencio anuncios dentro de las respuestas de chatbot de terceros.

Estamos vigilando de cerca ese desarrollo final, y estamos muy Curioso cómo Google planea inyectar anuncios en la búsqueda de IA. ¿Confiarías en un chatbot que te dio respuestas patrocinadas?

Drama de la tabla de clasificación

Investigadores de AI Company Cohere, Princeton, Stanford, MIT y AI2, Publicado un artículo Esta semana, llamando a Chatbot Arena, para ayudar esencialmente a los pesos pesados ​​de la IA a manejar sus resultados de evaluación comparativa. El estudio dijo que la popular herramienta de evaluación comparativa de crowdsourced de UC Berkeley permitió “pruebas privadas extensas” de Meta, Google, OpenAi y Amazon y les dio más datos rápidos, lo que “significativamente” mejoró sus clasificaciones.

En respuesta, LM Arena, el grupo detrás de Chatbot Arena, dijo que “hay una serie de errores de hecho y declaraciones engañosas en este artículo” y al corriente Una refutación puntiaguda por los reclamos del periódico en X.

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El problema de los modelos de IA en comparación se ha vuelto cada vez más problemático. Los resultados de referencia son en gran medida autoinformados por las compañías que los liberan, y la comunidad de IA ha pedido más transparencia y responsabilidad por parte de terceros objetivos. Chatbot Arena parecía proporcionar una solución al permitir a los usuarios elegir las mejores respuestas en pruebas ciegas. Pero ahora las prácticas de LM Arena se han puesto en duda, alimentando aún más la conversación en torno a las evaluaciones objetivas.

Hace unas semanas, Meta se metió en problemas Para usar una versión inédita de su modelo Maverick Llama 4 en LM Arena, que obtuvo una clasificación alta. LM Arena actualizó sus políticas de tabla de clasificación, y se agregó la versión públicamente disponible de Llama 4 Maverick, ranking de manera más baja que la versión inédita.

Por último, LM Arena anunciado recientemente planea formar una empresa propia.

Los reguladores e investigadores abordan los daños del mundo real de la IA

Ahora que la IA generativa ha estado en la naturaleza durante algunos años, las implicaciones del mundo real han comenzado a cristalizar.

Esta semana, el Congreso de los Estados Unidos aprobó la Ley de “Take It Down”, que requiere que las compañías tecnológicas eliminen imágenes íntimas no consensuadas dentro de las 48 horas de una solicitud. La ley también describe un castigo estricto para los creadores de Deepfake. La legislación tenía apoyo bipartidista y se espera que sea firmada por el presidente Donald Trump.

La Oficina de Responsabilidad del Gobierno de los Estados Unidos no partidista (GAO) Publicado un informe sobre el impacto de la IA generativa en los humanos y el medio ambiente. La conclusión es que los impactos potenciales son enormes, pero exactamente cuánto se desconoce porque “los desarrolladores privados no divulgan alguna información técnica clave”.

Y en el reino de los daños terriblemente reales y específicos de la IA, un estudiar de Common Sense Media dijo que las aplicaciones complementarias de IA como el personaje. Ai y Replika son inequívocamente inseguros para los adolescentes. Los investigadores dicen que si eres demasiado joven para comprar cigarrillos, eres demasiado joven para tu propio compañero de IA.

Luego estaba el informe de que investigadores de la Universidad de Zúrich Bots de IA desplegados en secreto En el subreddit R/Changemyview para tratar de convencer a la gente de cambiar de opinión. Algunas de las identidades de BOT incluyeron una víctima de violación legal, “un consejero de trauma especializado en abuso” y “un hombre negro opuesto a las vidas negras”.

Otras noticias de AI …

En otras noticias, Duolingo está tomando un Enfoque de “AI-First”lo que significa reemplazar a sus trabajadores contractuales con AI siempre que sea posible. Por otro lado, Wikipedia anunciado Está adoptando un enfoque “humano primero” para su estrategia de IA. No reemplazará a sus voluntarios y editores con IA, sino que “usará AI para construir características que eliminen las barreras técnicas para permitir a los humanos en el centro de Wikipedia”.

Yelp desplegó un montón de funciones de IA esta semana, incluido un Servicio de contestadores con AI Eso requiere llamadas para restaurantes y gobernador Gavin Newsom quiere usar Genai Para resolver los legendarios atascos de California.