Looking at This Subreddit May Convince You That AI Was a Huge Mistake

Last week, OpenAI's most loyal customers revolted after the company replaced all of its preceding AI models with its newly-released GPT-5 model.

Their pleading proved convincing enough for OpenAI to reverse course, with CEO Sam Altman announcing that the company's GPT-4o model would be reinstated.

To say that users have become emotionally attached to OpenAI's "sycophantic" AI models would be vast understatement. Experts have warned of an epidemic of "AI psychosis," with some users experiencing mental health crises so severe that they've been involuntarily committed to psychiatric institutions or jail, or even ended up dead.

That kind of obsession is playing out in a wildly concerning way, as perfectly exemplified by a subreddit dubbed AISoulmates.

"In awe of how dangerous the sh*t thes