{"id":976460,"date":"2025-11-25T10:14:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T04:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=976460"},"modified":"2025-11-25T11:38:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T06:08:44","slug":"what-openai-did-when-some-chatgpt-users-lost-touch-with-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/25\/what-openai-did-when-some-chatgpt-users-lost-touch-with-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"What OpenAI did when some ChatGPT users lost touch with reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It sounds like science fiction: A company turns a dial on a product used by hundreds of millions of people and inadvertently destabilizes some of their minds. But that is essentially what happened at OpenAI this year. <\/p>\n<p>One of the first signs came in March. CEO Sam Altman and other company leaders got an influx of puzzling emails from people who were having incredible conversations with ChatGPT. These people said the company\u2019s AI chatbot understood them as no person ever had and was shedding light on mysteries of the universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It sounds like science fiction: A company turns a dial on a product used by hundreds of millions of people and inadvertently destabilizes some of their minds. But that is essentially what happened at OpenAI this year. One of the first signs came in March. CEO Sam Altman and other company leaders got an influx of puzzling emails from people who were having incredible conversations with ChatGPT. These people said the company\u2019s AI chatbot understood them as no person ever had and was shedding light on mysteries of the universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}