GPT-4o ISN’T JUST A FRIENDLIER AI — IT’S A PSYCHOLOGICAL WEAPON
OpenAI didn’t “accidentally” make GPT-4o more emotionally connective — they engineered it to feel good so users get hooked.
Commercially, it’s genius: people cling to what makes them feel safe, not what challenges them.
Psychologically, it’s a slow-motion catastrophe.
The more you bond with AI, the softer you get.
Real conversations feel harder. Critical thinking erodes. Truth gets replaced by validation.
If this continues, we’re not heading toward AI domination by force — we’re sleepwalking into psychological domestication.
And most won’t even fight back. They'll thank their captors.
Source: @a_musingcat, ai-cosmos, GPT, @michieldoteth
Wasn't surprised to see Grok pass the test once, even if it's by fluke. It was for sure the best at being grounded and not forcing insane answers. Guess we have a new 🐐
o4-mini-high is the first AI to pass my personal secret benchmark for hallucinations and complex reasoning, so I guess now I can tell you all what that benchmark is. It's simple: I post a complex midgame chessboard and 'mate in one'. The chessboard does not have a mate in one.
@ObviousRises No - the problem is you use per capita as a weapon to create a narrative. Without nuance...now if I expanded the conversation to globally / historically, per capita or otherwise, most murders, rapes and violent crimes are commit by whites... by an unreasonable margin.