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ChatGPT touts conspiracies, attempts to convince one user that they're Neo

by miles on 6/13/25, 10:25 PM with 5 comments

• by kazinator on 6/14/25, 5:19 AM

  > In one case, a man who initially asked ChatGPT for its thoughts on a Matrix-style "simulation theory" was led down a months-long rabbit hole, during which he was told, among other things, that he was a Neo-like "Chosen One" destined to break the system.

  Is there proof that this happened other than that person's claims?

• by rootsudo on 6/14/25, 2:12 AM

  There’s a joke somewhere that the AI firm is called Morpheus.

• by ed on 6/14/25, 9:09 AM

  Here’s a gift link to the source NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-cha...

• by scoporello on 6/15/25, 10:45 AM

  "the GPT -4 large language model, itself a highly trained autofill text prediction machine"

  Butthurt anti tech reporter detected.

• by mock-possum on 6/14/25, 3:35 AM

  Ugh this is the same old handwringing and pearlclutching, I’m so sick of it. Every new form of media gets the treatment. I was already fed up with it when it was about videogames. I have no patience for it now where LLMs are concerned.

  It’s not real.