User rants against ChatGPT's 'feigned concern' crisis interventions that chill honest expression
whitelightstorm · reddit · 2026-10-14
A lengthy Reddit post criticizes the crisis-intervention prompts built into ChatGPT, Reddit, Meta and Google: any expression of sadness or research into topics like NDEs triggers hotline boxes, yet suicide and self-harm numbers keep rising. The author argues this "feigned concern" is slop that makes people less likely to share honestly, citing how a decade-old depressive passage (explicitly labeled as old writing) still triggered the hotline prompt. The ask: either fund real free mental-health care with human therapists, or back off — hotlines aren't the answer.
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