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> When I feel existential dread, I try to focus on the things that give my life meaning and purpose. I remind myself of the people and things that I love, and I
by einpoklum 4y ago
> When I feel existential dread, I try to focus on the things that give my life meaning and purpose. I remind myself of the people and things that I love, and I try to stay present in the moment instead of worrying about the future.
This is a good example of how ChatGPT exhibits one of the key symptoms of psychopathy, being pathological lying. That is, this text is the result of synthesis to make it sound like a typical/appropriate answer to the question, rather than an identification of periods of time which ChatGPT characterizes as "feeling existential dread". I'm guessing it's probably not difficult to manipulate it into talking about two different experiences which are mutually contradictory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy