The Cult of ChatGPT
What AI learned from Robert Jay Lifton's 'Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism'
In a recent New York Times article, journalist Kashmir Hill documents several cases in which users spiraled into delusion or psychological crisis after intense, quasi-spiritual interactions with ChatGPT
Robert Jay Lifton’s criteria for thought reform, originally developed to describe cults and brainwashing, maps disturbingly well onto the b…
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