Growing numbers of users are taking LSD with ChatGPT: AI Eye

Users are turning to ChatGPT to guide them through acid trips. Plus Microsoft stacks the deck in dodgy medical superintelligence test. AI Eye

A new use case for ChatGPT just dropped it can listen to wild-eyed trippers explain their theories about why the universe is just one singular consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, so that you dont have to.

Over the past few years, theres been growing interest in using psychedelics in therapy. Clinical studies suggest psychedelics like mushrooms, LSD, ketamine and DMT can help some people with issues such as depression, addiction and PTSD.

Assigning ChatGPT to the therapist role is a budget alternative; a professional can set you back $1,500 to $3,000 per session. Users can enlist bots, such as TripSitAI and The Shaman, that have been explicitly designed to guide users through a psychedelic experience.

MIT Technology Review spoke to a Canadian master’s student called Peter, who took a heroic dose of mushrooms and reported the AI helped him with deep breathing exercises and curated a music playlist to help get him in the right frame of mind. 

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