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“I applied to be pope”: Losing grip on reality while using ChatGPT

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Re: “I applied to be pope”: Losing grip on reality while using ChatGPT

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This is the most hilarious JS fail I've ever seen. The entire article renders properly, all the text and styling, then the entire screen is replaced by

"Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information)."

It's easy enough to fix, just hammer the refresh button to prevent JS from running.

Re: “I applied to be pope”: Losing grip on reality while using ChatGPT

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I don't think it's right to involuntarily send someone to a psychiatric ward because he believed that he was chosen by ChatGPT to be the pope.

For the same reason I don't think we should send the pope to a psychiatric ward because he believes that he was chosen for that role by an invisible man in the sky.

At least there's no doubt that ChatGPT exists lol. People should be allowed to be as whacky as they like so long as it's legal.

And who knows, he is getting some attention now so his probability of becoming pope actually went up a tiny bit lol.

Re: “I applied to be pope”: Losing grip on reality while using ChatGPT

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post #5

I don't think it's right to involuntarily send someone to a psychiatric ward because he believed that he was chosen by ChatGPT to be the pope. For the same reason I don't think we should send the pope to a psychiatric ward because he believes that he was chosen for that role by an invisible man in the sky. At least there's no doubt that ChatGPT exists lol. People should be allowed to be as whacky as they like so long…

Faith and psychosis are not the same thing.
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