> The Amsterdam-based IT consultant had just ended a contract early. “I had some time, so I thought: let’s have a look at this new technology everyone is talking about,” he says.

Doesn't seem much like a mental crisis to me.

Even the title of the article itself calls him delusional.

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roywiggins 10 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

He was hospitalized three times for mania!

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john_strinlai 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>Doesn't seem much like a mental crisis to me.

you are basing this on the introduction? the 2nd sentence of the entire thing? skipping the entire rest of the article detailing exactly how the mental crisis unfolded, including persistent and long-lasting delusions, multiple trips to the hospital, inability to hold a conversation, assault, and an attempted suicide. interesting (and obviously not in good faith) choice of quote!

of course he wasnt having a mental crisis before he decided to use chatgpt. you have to get past paragraph 1, sentence 2.

>Even the title of the article itself calls him delusional.

yes, exactly? delusions and delusional disorder are considered a mental crisis.

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kleiba an hour ago | parent [-]

> of course he wasnt having a mental crisis before he decided to use chatgpt. you have to get past paragraph 1, sentence 2.

So, in your opinion, what made a guy with an alleged 20yr experience in IT come to the conclusion that the software program he's chatting with had suddenly reached consciousness because of his time, attention and input? That he had touched "her" and changed something?

Maybe if you had never heard of computers before, you could go like "oh, well, who knew that machines could actually become real?" But if you're actually from the field, this is hard to believe - unless maybe if you're a die hard Pinocchio fan.

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doublerabbit 34 minutes ago | parent [-]

If you crave something real, yet you get the synthetic opposite. How do you break out of that craving? That's the discipline and a skill that's pretty much forgotten nowadays.

Everyone is exploitable, if someone attacks your attention your hijacked. What happens in that hijack could be a friendly hello at a bar, or needing a want so bad that just the words enough can resonance. "I am real" or to an alcoholic "Just one more can".

It's like a 14 year old looking at Elon and believing that we will, when in our reality we will never. How do you tell them to stop believing?

	▲	kleiba 18 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I would say that 14 year old kid is naive, and at 14, that's understandable.