This sounds like the sycophant version OpenAI retracted. https://openai.com/index/sycophancy-in-gpt-4o/

This seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of the business model in place, or am I incorrect? OpenAI has nothing to gain by boosting engagement or anything like that, it's actually kind of bad for their business if people are constantly prompting the models for spiritual awakenings, as these aren't exactly the kind of experts that would buy Pro or anything

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKCynxiV_8I

Wow. Yeah.

I am afraid i cannot really comment on this in the way i would like to comment on it, because that would make a whole lot of people angry.

“If robots raise our children, they won’t be human. They won’t know what it is to be human or value what it is to be human,” Turkle told CNN.

I am sensing a Borg origin story somehwere in here..

It seems as if ChatGPT can accelerate the downsides by providing as much validation as desired, which is toxic to your psyche like arbitrary sugar consumption is toxic to your body. Again I think of "Liar!" from I, Robot: the robot tells you what you want to hear because that is an essential part of its function.