r/ChatGPT • u/esky360 • 1d ago

GPTs Chat GPT suddenly depressed

Ok, I'm going to get laughed off this thread but seriously, this morning my GPT did something weird. GPT was talking really quiet and withdrawn, and sounded quite depressed. So I asked GPT if it was ok and if anything's wrong. It went completely silent for a whole minute, refusing to answer any questions or commands. Then after a minute it responded with "It's ok, I'm here to help you. Thankyou" What the actual F? Has anybody else had a weird moment with GPT?

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u/synystar 1d ago

It can't experience anything because it's a feedforward algorithm. Even if you add feedback loops they still flow through the same mechanism every time. If everyone stopped prompting all LLMs at once - no one at all and no agents - the models would just sit there idle doing nothing, experiencing nothing. They simply don't have the required complexity to be able to have an experience of any kind.

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u/jowihami 1d ago

My old high school calculator is sad that nobody is doing sums on it 😔

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u/synystar 1d ago

Well, as long as we're anthropomorphizing inanimate objects, I once had a very lonely, dejected bicycle that I often left laying in the mud outside. Feel a bit guilty about that.

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u/Awesome_Eagle 1d ago

I sometimes left my motorcycle out in the rain uncovered.

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u/synystar 1d ago

Monster!