Earlier this week, a prominent venture capitalist named Geoff Lewis — managing partner of the multi-billion dollar investment firm Bedrock, which has backed high-profile tech companies including OpenAI and Vercel — posted a disturbing video on X-formerly-Twitter that’s causing significant concern among his peers and colleagues.

“This isn’t a redemption arc,” Lewis says in the video. “It’s a transmission, for the record. Over the past eight years, I’ve walked through something I didn’t create, but became the primary target of: a non-governmental system, not visible, but operational. Not official, but structurally real. It doesn’t regulate, it doesn’t attack, it doesn’t ban. It just inverts signal until the person carrying it looks unstable.”

In the video, Lewis seems concerned that people in his life think he is unwell as he continues to discuss the “non-governmental system.”

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    10 hours ago

    a wave of people who are suffering severe breaks with reality as they spiral into the obsessive use of ChatGPT or other AI products

    At some point, ChatGPT is the only “person“ who will still talk to a spiraling person. Plus, LLMs are notorious for agreeing to anything, causing a reinforcing effect.