{"id":44454,"date":"2026-03-03T15:56:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=44454"},"modified":"2026-03-03T15:56:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:56:53","slug":"her-husband-wanted-to-use-chatgpt-to-create-sustainable-housing-then-it-took-over-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=44454","title":{"rendered":"Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0c40de24ac2cc37ab0f416a8e3b5997804d0a529\/0_0_9504_6336\/master\/9504.jpg?width=1900&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:197px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Kate Fox says Joe Ceccanti was the \u2018most hopeful person\u2019 before he started spending 12 hours a day with a chatbot<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2026\/feb\/28\/chatgpt-ai-chatbot-mental-health\">Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>seems this specific case, the dude was a little nuts, but did the chatbot somehow encourage or lead him to the breaks he had.  my experiance is yes the gemini is too friendly, too positive, but i see it.  it seems like a suckup.  i tried to tune it by asking it to be more critical, but then it seemed to be an asshole.  also tried the so-called &#8220;potato&#8221; profile, but again, too agressive.  i like the positive feedback, but just want to tone it down a bit.  regardless, it just seems so obvioius to mae that i ignore it (or, at least i THINK i am ignoreing it&#8230;.); also, i&#8217;ve not had long conversations.  the long ones are all in the pursuit ofd installing some fickiung pc of software that doesn&#8217;t quite work, many hours of going round and rond to solave a niggling little problem in a container in a docker on a linux serfver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Marple adds <em><strong>that users will spiral after their long conversations with a chatbot<\/strong><\/em>, whatever model it may be, because, he thinks, companies can\u2019t afford to do it differently. He argues sycophancy is a feature, not a bug.<br>&#8230;<br>He adds that, unlike human conversations, which feature pushback and different perspectives tugging at each other, <em><strong>a user doesn\u2019t receive any pushback during their conversations with chatbots: <\/strong><\/em>\u201cThe design of the product is pushing you away from reality. It\u2019s pushing you away from other people,\u201d he said. \u201cThe friction with other people is what keeps us grounded.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[2239,2231,505],"class_list":["post-44454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-chatbots","tag-gemini","tag-mental-health","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44456,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44454\/revisions\/44456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}