The human and chatbot went into a delusional spiral together. I’ve talked to a couple people recently IRL who are into fringe, new-agey “science” and had their half-baked ideas amplified and strengthened by chatbots. Most of my own chatbot experience has been pretty straightforward professional stuff, and it’s mostly stayed pretty close to reality for that. In contrast, this seems pretty clearly harmful.

As a test, I just came up with a random bullshit theory to unify QM and GR. ChatGPT told me it was “promising” and is currently “running numerical simulations to verify the theory’s plausibility”.