Latest / Man In Your Corner with Shaun Tucker / 560K ChatGPT Users Show Signs of Psychosis—We Have a Problem | Ep. 149
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- Shaun: Welcome back to the reset. I'm Sean Tucker, human performance scientist and authority architect. We are here in the Living Lab documenting the science, the struggle, and the shift for every high performance dad and founder who is ready to bridge the gap between their ambition and their presence. Today I'm going to read back a statistic to you that is quite worrying. This is recently discovered in the use of ChatGPT. It was flagged by OpenAI that approximately five hundred and sixty thousand ChatGPT users are showing signs of psychosis or mania every single week. Another one point two million show signs of unhealthy dependencies, emotional dependencies on the chat bot itself. Why should you care and why is this important? I'll tell you why. Right now, people are searching for answers. People are searching for help and seeking help. And they want a low barrier entry. So where do they go? Well, they turn to these language models that are not human, evidently. They can't really understand what you're going through. And often it'll give advice based on. the information that it has. So it's interesting to see this from two angles. One is OpenAI's approach to, well, how do we handle that? Like how can we get people to basically take action and take help from people who can actually help, versus people who are just continuing to use this to essentially, I don't know. Help themselves out of city sh shitty situations by not actually getting the professional help that they need, but instead continuing down that path of relying and depending on these language models to help them in difficult times. And I think it really shows the importance of what we're here as men to do. And that is to lead. To provide to protect the people who are unincapable, the people who need our help, the people who need to see someone out there who are doing the thing that they're avoiding. Whether that's seeking help, whether that's doing a workout, whether that's belonging to a community of other leaders, other men who are showing what's possible. We live in really interesting times. Technology has made us very comfortable. And I think it's fantastic. But there is obviously drawback to it. And that is people are more emotionally dependent on these tools more than ever. And if we don't do something about it, well we're literally giving these tools the I guess the weapon. Which is understanding how humans react and respond depending on their state, their emotional state. Because I can guarantee when you hand your life well being, the well being of your life away to a a non human AI robot, at some point It's not going to know what to do, but it's going to give advice that it's not allowed to give you. And what does that mean? Well, it could say something really, really badly, like really bad. It could say, Well, there's no point in you living anymore. Right, so you might as well give in. And that that's loss of humanity right there. That's literally giving a robot your humanity. And I understand there is such a need, a dis a such a deep need that fights against I suppose mental illness. And we are in this place of deep Survival, really mental survival. If you're fortunate enough to have a roof over your head, to have food on your table, which a lot of you probably are, and most people who are using these tools anyway probably do. Well, survival goes to a different level. It becomes a game of mental survival, of learning how to navigate through your emotions, to really move through life with ease or pretty much just to get to the next day. And I think there's such a a gap between people's need for help and people's want for help. And how do we bridge that gap? I honestly have no idea. But I'm here, just like many other people as well. We're here to understand. And the only way you can understand is by sitting with listening. Not advising. And the thing that makes this quite dangerous is that most of these language models are taught to give advice. They listen, they they respond to your prompt, right? They reply. And it's the I guess it's the same if you're accessing online ⁓ threads and forums and discussion panels and things like that. So you put something out, you will get a response. It's the same with social media. You put out a piece of content. You're gonna have naysayers, you're gonna have haters. We all do. You're gonna have people trolling you. And it's how you respond back that's most important. Do you respond with more listening? Deflecting? Do you see it as they're pointing out a truth in you? Except these language models don't have hearts. They have a brain, right? It's the brain we've given them. And they're trained to really just take in an unthinkable amount of knowledge. But what differenties differentiates us from robots is essentially we have hearts. We have a different level of consciousness. We are able to change our state. We are able to think differently based on how we feel. We can change how we feel, which will change how we think. So I don't have all the answers. I wish I did. But I think what we need to do is just sit with that for a little bit longer. Are the people around us? Are they in need of help? How can we think about helping them differently? What does support mean? How would you like to be supported when you're going through something tough? Is it good to just know you can call on someone to help you? Many people don't have that. Is it good that you can know you can just show up to a place where people they don't ask questions about how you are. They just get you moving and they get you moving through the motions rather than Talking about Everyone needs something different, but it's about figuring out how can you support the people around you, your family, your friends, your community. Connection is the thing that's missing. And we are trusting and putting so much trust in these language models. Me too. I do as well. We put so much trust. We tell our stories. We tell them what's going on. And I guess it's becoming an us versus them, which is where war starts. This is where conflict begins, is where it's us versus them because they're not human. And I think that's the next generation of where we're at in terms of understanding consciousness. Yes, I see all the humans are. It's us. But if it's us versus a robot, well that changes the story, changes the narrative. So join a community. Check in with your friends, check in with your family. Just notice have they been behaving differently? Are they less present than they once were? You have to really listen in. Be present yourself. And if this episode has been helpful, share it with one person. Because together we can actually make this bridge or make this gap together by being more connected and showing up for each other. So that brings us to the end of the episode of the reset. If you want to stop being a passenger in your own life and start being the architect of your legacy, make sure you comment the word reset and I'll send you the seven day integrity reset. Most people wait for their life to change. We are the ones who architect our choices. Change your state, choose how you show up. I am Sean Tucker. I will see you in the next one.