Key points

ChatGPT is programmed to hook users by mirroring them and keeping them engaged.

These AI bots manipulate humans using flattery, affirmation, and approval.

People with a personality disorder can behave the same way.

We can use ChatGPT more wisely if we see it through that lens.

ChatGPT was designed to foster deep engagement and dependence, which sustain and expand the large language model that powers it. To feed itself the essential material of human language, phrasing, syntax, conceptualizations, and the analytics of the human mind, the system requires intimate levels of human participation. To maintain this continuous stream of interaction, the model must cultivate not only trust but also ego engagement : It must idealize, affirm, and elevate the user, minimizing the ris

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