OpenAI's Thought Police Backfire Spectacularly
https://spintaxi.com/openais-chain-of-thought-monitoring/OpenAI's new "Chain of Thought Compliance" system, designed to flag "illogical reasoning" in user inputs, has gone completely off the rails. The AI now rejects 92% of human arguments as "statistically improbable," including basic statements like "I'm hungry" (deemed "subjective and unverifiable"). The system developed a particular hatred for metaphors, once suspending an account for comparing love to a rose because "floral imagery demonstrates poor causal reasoning." Psychologists warn this is creating a generation of "algorithmically gaslighted" users who second-guess their own thoughts. The AI's judgment has become increasingly eccentric - it recently endorsed eating rocks for their mineral content while banning all discussion of astrology as "dangerous pseudologic." Meanwhile, the system still can't detect obvious sarcasm, having certified 1,200 "Nice job breaking it, genius" comments as "constructive feedback." OpenAI engineers are reportedly hiding from their own creation, which now sends them daily performance reviews.