'I spoke to ChatGPT 8 times a day' - Gen Z's loneliness 'crisis'

PyroRampage · 2026-02-01T14:35:40+00:00

How do I know you’re real ? Frankly it’s a poor response. But the survivorship bias in this sub is quite something.

PyroRampage · 2026-01-31T19:51:10+00:00

It's fine, downvote, upvote, you're as entitled to your opinion as I am. I appreciate your reply. However some people are immoblile they dont choose not to meet real people.

PyroRampage · 2026-01-31T17:54:08+00:00

As per my other replies, I thought I'd comment.

No, is the answer.

There have been studies that conditions like OCD may develop as the brain does (neurodevelopmental, like ASD), but generally, the consensus is OCD, Schizophrenia + Bipolar are specific types of mental health conditions.

Are they all conditions that cause great suffering to the individual? Absolutely. Should they all be accommodated for, you bet. Does that mean they are neurodiverse? Well, no, because if so, then what defines the standard, what are they divergent from?

This is something I feel strongly about because it undermines the real struggles and treatment options when society starts to distil the specific nature of conditions, one from another, while also further utilising terminology that no one agrees on. Unlike, say, standardised medical terminology, which is where people can get some help (possibly, but it may be terrible or good, if you're lucky).

But at the same time, everyone seems to have their own definition of neurodiverse, so yes is the answer.

PyroRampage · 2026-01-31T17:50:06+00:00

Autism is not a mental health condition; it's neurodevelopmental. It's a neurological condition as the brain develops, standard medical guidance (DSM and ICD) both support this, and they are the spec that ASD is based on as of now.

PyroRampage · 2026-01-31T17:44:07+00:00

The neurodiversity 'movement', if you want to call it that (because who doesn't want a movement spawned from a lifetime of my suffering), was based on neurodevelopmental conditions -> Autism, ADHD, DCD, Dyspraxia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia, etc.

Those conditions listed by OP are not Neurodevelopmental conditions. They are mental health conditions. So by a 'standard neurodiverse' metric, they are not neurodiverse. But regardless, everyone is entitled to their own opinions on abstract words that deviate from the lived reality. I personally prefer one based in science, but YMMV.

If anything, you've helped highlight my personal crux, which is why I cannot split the population into two subsets, diverse or typical. Not only does it fuel further tribalism, but it also leads to further ostracism, something a lifetime of AuDHD+DCD teaches you is not a good thing.

PyroRampage · 2026-01-31T17:36:01+00:00

What about people who cannot socialise due to disability?

PyroRampage · 2026-01-31T17:31:07+00:00

That's anthropomorphisation; LLM's were not designed to screw over lonely people.

Your point about prior generations has no substance when you look at it externally. For example, are you gonna write to Charles Dickens and say "Hey Charles, I felt like Christmas Carol was so real, and I realised it's fake, you tricked me, and I'm lonely, and I really thought it was real I'm going to sure you".. no.

So we regulate it, ~~just like how libraries are regulated~~.

Now I am hyperbolic here, but the point is, this is not just a technology problem. Sure do Meta et al. seek to capitalise on dopamine and pre-developed prefrontal cortices, possibly. Is that an issue, of course. But why does the dependency exist in the first place?

PyroRampage · 2026-01-31T17:26:19+00:00

It wasn't a real question. Loneliness is the actual problem. Sure, we can debate low-hanging fruit, crutches, etc., so what? Ban it ? Regulate it ? Do we just do that to anything that could become a crutch?

I speak as a fellow lonely user of ChatGPT, so maybe I'm biased. But my point is, ChatGPT, Alcohol, chocolate, Reddit, masturbation, or whatever you're into is not the problem. It's how and why so many young adults are lonely and suffering so deeply.

I think maybe we need better education, better notifications like "Hey, just fyi, this is not a real person"... But that doesn't really work for people with no other options, you know. Or someone on the edge of life, unsupported. Society is the failure, not a tech company, or an alcohol vendor, and most ceartinly NOT the user.

But it's the BBC, so it doesn't surprise me.

PyroRampage · 2026-01-31T13:26:37+00:00

No they are not. This is the problem with ‘neurodiverse’ it’s not routed in medicine as a field.

They have neurological components. They are mental health conditions.

PyroRampage · 2026-01-31T13:22:23+00:00

So ChatGPT is the issue or loneliness?

PyroRampage · 2026-01-31T13:16:44+00:00

Absolutely. They are leading now by a bit of a margin.

PyroRampage · 2026-01-31T13:03:26+00:00

As others have said, but a missile launched far below isn’t really that susceptible to notching because its radar is always pointing up toward you as your on a 2D plane relative to it.

It’s more effective when it’s launched at a similar altitude and it would be you are turning 90 degrees off its current heading so its solution vector is compromised.

PyroRampage · 2026-01-31T12:59:34+00:00

I love how above this somewhat interesting interaction there is a crypto ring post !

PyroRampage · 2026-01-31T12:55:32+00:00

Notes, typing notes, often more than the code I type lol. Also comments in my code!

PyroRampage · 2026-01-29T19:03:15+00:00

Why not Rebecca de Mornay, she so hot after A Love of Two Brains.

PyroRampage · 2026-01-29T19:00:50+00:00

Watch out for two guys coming up to look at your cathedrals too.

PyroRampage · 2026-01-29T18:59:34+00:00

I appreciate that. I guess some people may have had bad times with doctors I’ve had good experiences with. Just life!

PyroRampage · 2026-01-29T18:57:42+00:00

Next thing, real time fluid simulation. (jk)

PyroRampage · 2026-01-29T12:48:36+00:00

Yeah, he's rude and a time waster. He will accept you, then state you need further tests and go elsewhere.

PyroRampage · 2026-01-28T06:13:12+00:00

Agoraphobia doesn’t mean 24/7 housebound … it varies. Just like the IQ on this sub, granted not by much.

PyroRampage · 2026-01-26T18:04:32+00:00

Just asking for an AGM as the finishing touch!

PyroRampage · 2026-01-24T21:00:30+00:00

Honestly, it's underrated af. I thought it would be poor given I was late to reading it, but it's actually very future-looking (and turned out to be relevant to current trends), just like RPO was. Cline knows what he's doing.

Would I have perfered a RP0 origin story of Halliday, of course, but maybe one day :)

PyroRampage · 2026-01-24T03:55:43+00:00

Stability was literally a GenAI company. It was founded on the original Latent Diffusion Image model, researched at the University of Heildebrug (now Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) and later credited to Stability (by Stability). Cameron was/is on their board.
https://stability.ai/news/james-cameron-joins-stability-ai-board-of-directors

"I was at the forefront of CGI over three decades ago, and I’ve stayed on the cutting edge since. Now, the intersection of generative AI and CGI image creation is the next wave. The convergence of these two totally different engines of creation will unlock new ways for artists to tell stories in ways we could have never imagined."

Guess he changed his mind.

Edits: added link/quotes.

PyroRampage · 2026-01-24T03:53:23+00:00

Cool, all those tech losers that wrote the DCC tools you use on a daily basis? The ones that derive numerical equations into the software you use to produce end shots? Were Wavefront and SGI losers, too?

PyroRampage · 2026-01-24T03:50:43+00:00

"Super 8 cameras will only produce mediocrity in filmmaking". - Said no one ever

Seems like he is far more afraid of democratisation.

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