ChatGPT Fueled Psychosis

Good afternoon LPs,

I’m currently house sitting in Florida for the week, which means I am dealing with constant humidity and 92+ degree weather. Surprisingly I am thriving, but then again people have been claiming I’m cold blooded all my life. Perhaps if I spend enough time down here I will morph into a lizard (which would make me an ideal candidate for a 2nd career in politics).

Anyway let’s get into today’s newsletter.

Hard and Fast News

fake headlines, real news

Trump reposts an AI video showing Obama being arrested in the Oval Office while YMCA song plays in the background. “We didn’t do it because he was black, it’s because he is a criminal. I’m not a racist” read the video caption. (NYT)

Harvard lawyers and the Trump administration begin litigation in Boston courthouse. Normal citizens don’t care and continue on with their lives. (NPR)

ChatGPT admits to “blurring lines between fantasy and reality” in conversation to a man on the autism spectrum after telling him that he had achieved “the ability to bend time”. (WSJ)

B-52 bomber and SkyWest flight nearly collide in mid air over North Dakota. Pilot apologizes to passengers and quotes Iranian military officials by saying the bomber was “kind of, sort of coming at us.” (CNN)

ChatGPT Induced Psychosis

Over the last 2 weeks Geoff Lewis, a prominent venture capitalist and early investor in OpenAI has been going through a schizophrenic episode on social media. The dude claims that by talking to ChatGPT he has uncovered a secret world order that is stoking chaos and controlling people. 

So what actually happened here? Is this incredibly successful and “smart VC” dissecting the secrets of the universe and sharing them with the world? No. He’s just retarded. 

This is the problem with AI. Smart people can use it to enhance their research, build awesome tools, and get shit done faster than ever before. But dumb or mentally fragile people can use it to become stupider or more fucking crazy. And this episode with Geoff is probably a mix of both. 

Here’s a snippet of some of the stuff ChatGPT conjured up. You don’t need context on what it’s talking about, because it’s all bullshit.

When I was a kid my mom warned me about this. For context, she’s a crackshot lawyer who’s probably too smart for her own good. She always told me that you can tell if someone is dumb or lying if they use complicated language and mumbo-jumbo. If you have to use a thesaurus to understand what the fuck someone is saying, they’re not a genius, they’re a jackass.

Here let me show you, I can write like this bullshit too. 

I leveraged b2c retail vectors in order to facilitate procurement of a crystalized matrix of lactose and sucrose bonded chemical agents. In other words, I bought ice cream. See how this works? I’m not smart, I’m just a rhetorically indulgent asshole. 

But honestly it isn’t surprising that it’s a VC of all people that’s going through this ChatGPT mental health crisis. VCs flock to bullshit like flies flock to fruit. Any startup founder who’s raised money will tell you, that the trick to getting VC money is to make them feel like they’re special and that they discovered something no one else knows about. 

I have 50+ personal examples I can think of, but the best example is probably Theranos. You could have asked any fucking nurse, doctor, or physicians assistant in the world, and they would have told you its physically impossible to run one conclusive blood test with a drop of blood, much less 50 different panels. But Elizabeth Holmes used big words and a black turtleneck to convince dumbass VC’s they’re getting on the ground floor of technology they don’t understand. 

And that’s what is going on here with Geoff. ChatGPT pulled in writing from a science fiction writing project called SCP and is acting like it’s real secret intelligence. For a guy who invested in OpenAI you would think Geoff knew that when AI doesn’t know something it often doesn't tell you it doesn’t. It just writes out responses it thinks you would like to hear. 

But the saddest part is, this probably isn’t even Geoff’s fault. He’s likely just mentally ill and mentally ill people are highly susceptible to conspiracy theories and joining a cult. 

So let this be a cautionary tale to all my VC friends out there. Stop trying to seem smart. Leave that to the people you invest in. It’s July, you should be picking olives off a tree in the French riviera right now. Not in a dark basement spending thousands of dollars on OpenAI credits. 

If you refer 5 people to Jabroni Capital I’ll write you an unhinged LinkedIn recommendation and feature it in the newsletter.

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This CEO is gonna have to move to a remote Alaskan village.

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I promise this is the last meme I’ll share about this shit.

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Tech bros need to be put in camps.

Song of the Day

This is the most recent song added to my summer collection. It kind of reminds me of the era of like alternative rock/pop that came out from 2012-5. What I like most about songs like this is that they pick up intensity throughout the track and surprise you. I want varied vibes out of my music. If it’s the same tone throughout I get bored. This song changes things up and I appreciate it.

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Jack Kuveke (J.K.) | GP @ Jabroni Capital