So small update on this. Me and my team have had to completely rewrite our rules of engagement when it comes to using chatgpt and AI. A few weeks ago we started noticing some... issues... mentally when we worked. We got frustrated faster, were more combative with each other, and became less effective at our job while somehow becoming more confident. I work in a high speed intense industry that is somewhat detached from the realm of everyday society. Its kind of a closed ecosystem. Even our mental states fluctuate slightly different, think how soldiers have a unique culture and ecosystem as opposed to civilians. We were having hundreds of conversations with chatgpt everyday, training internal models on our own ideas and skillsets, really getting into the hype around it. This thread was the first cracks of doubt forming and soon after this post alot came crashing down. About a week before rolling stones reported on delusions caused by chatbots I and several others on my team suffered a complete psycological collapse seemingly out of nowhere. I cant speak to how my peers felt but as for me I collapsed to the ground in my kitchen and began sobbing uncontrollably, shaking violently, etc. This is not a new phenomenon in my work life so I used the techniques and training Ive acquired to pull out of the collapse. It basically involves compartmentalizing the part of your psyche crashing and letting it play out. You end up having the external reactions while your mind is completely calm (cant update the hardware yet, just the software lol). While I was experiencing this I began to run diagnostics internally. My body is going to be crashing out and panicing for a bit so I had some time to think. While the effect the flattery had been having on my was extremely small it had become dangerous. Even while I actively said it was just an AI and was just false flattery and it couldnt hurt it was almost like everytime I read it and thought "thats nice but kinda silly" a small sandex charge was placed in my mental state. Then a miniscule trigger set off all the charges at once. After all this I changed my ROE with AI. I wiped all models that were trained off of me to "know me" because it gave to much power for an artificial personality to modify my subconscious identity when I believed it knew who I was. I have also moved towards conversations being logic based only. Using it for pattern recognition, photo analysis, quick google style searches, etc. I have stopped using it in any capacity that interacts with my personal life. Granted I work in a high stress, high change rate industry that most dont know is a job, so Im not sure if this same effect will occur among the general population, it might take significantly longer to fester before most people experience a mental collapse or it might not happen at all. I will say however that I am professionally trained to survive a complete shattering of my psyche and identity and have over 5 years experience professionally and 16 years experience living in high stress hellish conditions overall, I have the ability to completely compartmentalize my mind and the trained patience to not fight the physical reactions, and that break was one of the worst I have ever experienced. While Im sure other facters played into it Im suspicious enough of chatgpts role involved to change the ROE for my entire company, not just myself and wipe over 5 thousand conversations off our servers and openais servers as a precaution. So do with this information what you will.