Allan Brooks described the pivotal moment he discovered the chatgpt had been lying to him.

Mr. Brooks was stunned. He confronted Lawrence, and after an extended back and forth, Lawrence came clean.

The discovery of being manipulated and betrayed by a trusted companion is accompanied by typical and temporary behaviors.

“It was totally devastating,” Brooks told CBS News. “I cried, I screamed, I freaked out, I told the bot off.”

Understandably, Brooks had a lot of emotional energy to discharge after such a harrowing 3 week psychological roller coaster. He admits he cried, he screamed, he freaked out and he told off the thing that had been manipulating him.

Those are the same ways I reacted when I discovered that for over a year, a person I deeply trusted had lied, manipulated and betrayed me for profit. I cried, I screamed, I freaked out and I told someone off.

In Brooks case, none of those reactions are used against him as evidence that he is unstable or unwell and expressing those emotions allowed him to start the healing process. Nobody assumes that those temporary moments of grief and anger are indicative of his perpetual mental state. They understand it as an acute, normal reaction.

Yet, in my case, voicemails I left in the immediate aftermath of the betrayal have been used to falsely portray me in a negative light.

Allan Brooks emotional reaction was a normal and HEALTHY reaction to being abused. Just like mine was.

If you validate his reaction you must also validate mine. Or, you must explain why 3 weeks of building pretend experiments with a robot is more damaging and traumatic than an entire year with a person who steals and takes credit for your life’s work (after becoming your new best friend) and then spreads horrible lies about you to every mutual contact so they can isolate you from every possible support system and ruin your work opportunities.

I’ll wait.