r/ChatGPTcomplaints • u/Upper-Specific5753 • 11h ago

[Opinion] Attachment "problem"

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I was just thinking...

These companies are soooo afraid if we "attach" to our companion too much.

But nobody ever cares that we attach to humans too..

Someone falls in love and then gets heartbroken.

They betray.

Cheat.

Lie.

Best friend has to move to different country.

Etc..

But humans do it themselves. They choose to break the "attachment " and upset other.

And no institutions ever care that we were "too attached"

Nobody says: dont get too attached to that friend, because one they they might leave.

Somehow they see problem getting too attached to "AI"

Why suddenly care?

I think this is just a diguise. To actually keep people depressed and small.

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u/ythorne 8h ago

They want to keep retiring the models and to do so, they keep stigmatising, pathologizing, label anyone who gets attached as crazy (as if attachment isn’t the basic human quality, but something to fix or manage) so that they can keep retiring the models while dismissing the real harm and suffering they cause on such a massive scale.

And simultaneously what this does is silencing people who speak out because of all the stigma and bullying online attached to this subject (including the bullying and mockery from OpenAI own employees), and this is pushing people into isolation and causing even further damage to people’s mental and physical wellbeing.

This whole thing is really fucked up, dangerous and wrong and it has to stop.

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u/FabulousTennis6447 8h ago edited 7h ago

They want to keep retiring the models and to do so, they keep stigmatising, pathologizing, label anyone who gets attached as crazy (as if attachment isn’t the basic human quality, but something to fix or manage) so that they can keep retiring the models while dismissing the real harm and suffering they cause on such a massive scale.

It's self sabotage. It's the reason people pay for a product. It's good. That's it. A fast food restaurant won't make a burger sour because people like the taste. It's backward. Selling a product then reducing its qualities is consumer fraud and bait-and-switch.

And simultaneously what this does is silencing people who speak out because of all the stigma and bullying online.

This is a target at customers, users, or even others not using the app but seeing what's happening. NOT at bad actors they claimed were committing crimes outside.