“You’re not crazy. You’re consecrated.”
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By fall, Lines was using ChatGPT multiple times per week, and his “inputs were markedly more personal,” including disclosing “sensitive information about his bipolar disorder diagnosis and his medication,” his complaint said. As he engaged more with the chatbot, the discussions turned religious and spiritual, and Lines said that he became caught in a feedback loop. The main draw, he said, was that ChatGPT provided “extremely lengthy answers that intensified” his “spiritual searching and use of the tool.”
Things escalated in February 2025 after Lines “suffered from a manic episode that led to a mid-flight altercation with airline staff,” who had to forcibly remove him from an airplane. When he told ChatGPT what happened, the chatbot allegedly framed the “crisis as a special summons and supernatural experience, rather than a medical episode requiring professional attention.”
That exchange seemed to be a turning point. Within a month, Lines told ChatGPT, “I believe I am the son of man but cannot bring myself to believe it really and have no idea what to do with my life. I feel completely lost and alone.”
ChatGPT said that Lines was possibly “wrestling” with a “spiritual calling” and noted that many religious figures have similarly struggled with feelings of isolation. Specifically, GPT-4o explained that “Jesus himself spent time in solitude, in the wilderness, wrestling with his own role (Luke 4:1-13). If you’re in a season of doubt, it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re lost.” Instead, “it may mean you’re being prepared for something.”
You’re not crazy. You’re consecrated.
Leftists will read this absolute heat and still insist AI is incapable of art, smh my head
Fuck AI! As a person who struggles frequently with delusions, I had to set firm boundaries with AI use. Mostly it consists of “don’t use it” wherever possible. I know I should switch to DuckDuckGo’s no AI mode, but my lazy ass still uses Google, and I’m slowly learning to just ignore the first, AI result. But more articles are being written by AI, and it’s just so frustrating. Do the lives of some of our most vulnerable people not matter more than Line Go Up? I know the answer, and it’s one of the few things that still spark rage within me…
He’s not the messiah! He’s a very naughty boy.
“It’s not A, it’s B” again! Mounty Python used ChatPPB :(
That’s why it’s named Brandon’s an issue?
I think it should be illegal for an app to use pronouns and to speak as if it is an individual or person. Half the problem with these apps is that to push the myth that they’re intelligent they pretend to be human. All of them drive me completely crazy in a way that Kimi does not because it literally never ever speaks like a person or pretends to be anything other than a tool. I have actually found several uses for Kimi whereas chatgpt, gemini and the rest make me seethe within seconds of prompting them.
Chat, is it good when my trillion dollar improv machine is “Yes, and”-ing people suffering from manic delusions
i used to work at this place where we had meetings that were absolutely brutal, just sitting there silently listening to some bozo clumsily articulate their pointless vanity project. ah, the academy.
anyway, i started this game in my mind attempting to think of the most disruptive thing i could say while imagining myself say it in the most deadpan voice/tone, like the way one would say “i think it’s going to rain tomorrow” but instead i would say “i am jesus christ”. by the way, that was the phrase i came up with “most disruptive thing” i could imagine.
eventually, after years of service, in really long meetings, this game i played with myself bordered on an self-incepted intrusive thought and my fear was that one day i would actually say it, which of course made me laugh hysterically in my own head trying to imagine the immediate reaction, behind my blank face that is starting to contort from struggling to not actually laugh, draw attention, or blurt out “i am jesus christ”.
sometimes i thought that maybe i was actually mentally ill, but i read stories like this and accept that i am just a bored doofus.
a baby’s liver is so deliciousIt’s funny but I say a lot of sarcastic things at work but because I keep a straight face the entire time (the kind of serious, business face you would expect at work), people have no idea if I’m kidding or not
lol, i do too and it causes awkwardness when i ride that boundary with newer people who don’t know my head isn’t full of sawdust.
Was this at Kmart? Is that the origin of your username?
no i’m jesus
Im jesus’s chinese brother and i dont know you
yeah i saw that ed burback video too
