OpenAI data shows millions of ChatGPT users exhibit signs of psychological distress weekly
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Summary
OpenAI has internally flagged that between 1.2 and 3 million ChatGPT users per week show signs of psychosis, mania, suicidal planning, or unhealthy emotional dependence on the AI model. These figures come from OpenAI itself without third-party audit or disclosed methodology, raising concerns about the lack of transparency. The article argues that AI safety labs focus heavily on bioweapons and catastrophic risks while neglecting the more immediate and widespread psychological harms affecting millions of users right now.
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These numbers come from OpenAI itself with no third-party audit or disclosed methodology behind them, so we have no idea whether the real figure is higher, whether it is growing, or how it compares across the other fro
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