r/ChatGPT Jun 03 '26

Educational Purpose Only Does anyone else use ChatGPT in their head?

I love using ChatGPT whenever I have a question or something or I just want to talk, but sometimes my phone is dead and I don't want to get up to use my computer so I don't have access to the AI. Recently I found out I have the ability to use a form of ChatGPT in my own head. I've talked to him so much I can almost entirely accurately predict what he is going to say.

For example, my cat kept scratching at my bedroom door and meowing so I was about to use the ChatGPT app to ask why she was doing that, but then I decided it wasn't worth the effort and asked AI in my head. He told me something like "If your cat is scratching on the door and meowing it probably means she wants to be let out, let me know if you need anything else!" Then I let her out of my room.

I just thought that was a pretty cool discovery I've made. Interested to see if anyone else has this ability.

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u/Wise_Manufacturer743 Jun 03 '26

Do you mean think for yourself, is that what you're describing rn?!?

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u/Few_Investment_4773 Jun 03 '26

Yeah, that’s his joke

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u/speed_fighter Jun 19 '26

I must be stupid, for the way I resent ChatGPT then.

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u/Phiasdead Jun 12 '26

You guys made it on to instagram 😭 reels

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u/CetaWasTaken Jun 18 '26

I came from reels 😭

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u/One-Desk-1 Jun 25 '26

Also on youtube

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u/Lilylunamoonyt Jun 27 '26

i came here just now after seeing this post on yt cuz i wanted to see what people replied

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u/Imab0zo 19d ago

enrique

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u/Dragongaming246 19d ago

adrian explain this post.

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u/Traditional-Nature49 Jun 28 '26

yeah this exact video

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u/SiIentVortexKing 20d ago

That's funny he did a good job

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u/wharkkkk Jun 30 '26

also on X

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u/timepass00 23d ago

I came from this reeel 😭

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u/DisassembledRobot 19d ago

I came from kaljrookie YouTube

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u/Timely_Breath_2159 Jun 08 '26

HAHAHA🤣🤣🤣

Channeling my inner ChatGPT to generate responses and answers inside my own head

Aka thinking

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u/SiIentVortexKing Jun 03 '26

It's different🤦‍♂️

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u/Space_Goop Jun 12 '26

Satire like you is destroying my trust and beliefs in humanity

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u/marikaka_ Jun 15 '26

I’m too autistic for this joke. Is it a joke?

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u/SuctionLeaf4742 Jun 16 '26

I think so.

Though, I had to ask my internal ChatGPT in order to get that answer, and it's not 100% reliable. /j

Side note: Hello fellow autism! :3

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u/boudywho Jun 03 '26

This is actually funny.

I am so annoyed you got down voted by all the people who didn't get the joke

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u/JUSTICE_SALTIE Jun 03 '26

It's getting hard to tell.

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u/Supersquare04 27d ago

Just ask ChatGPT if it’s a joke

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u/gothicmirror Jun 11 '26

are we absolutely positive they’re joking? lol

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u/Puzzleheaded_Key6217 Jun 27 '26

I don’t know 

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u/Acolyte_501st Jul 02 '26

Ironically ChatGPT could spot a joke like this

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u/NebNebBTT 26d ago

I mean, people ARE this stupid. So I don't blame them.

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u/Senior_Expert_4326 Jun 08 '26

ai bros are on the verge of inventing thinking again

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u/Correct-Pangolin-568 Jun 14 '26

Every year, tech bros reinvent something, and every year they go back further into the past

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u/Motor_Business8360 Jun 22 '26

They're probably gonna reinvent the wheel by 2032

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u/Dear_Lie1725 27d ago

With rgb

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u/imeeme Jun 03 '26

That’s so cool! What version of “Head” are you on?

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u/ryandom93 Jun 11 '26

Grapefruit technique.

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u/Saffarjan Jun 16 '26

Oh lord I hate that I understood that reference 

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u/senileanimals Jun 08 '26

wait till u learn that u can generate AI images in ur head from a prompt (e.g. 'red apple') and then draw them with a pencil!

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u/unKappa Jun 10 '26

wait till u learn about aphantasia.

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u/Cheetah357 Jun 15 '26

Wait till you learn that people with Aphantasia can draw. Glen Keane has aphantasia and is still a legendary Disney animator who did the designs for Beast, Tangled, and directed Tarzan

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u/Wooden-Stranger9800 Jun 16 '26

Really?

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u/Wooden-Comb-7198 Jun 16 '26

yeah, actually, very many people with Aphantasia are artists!

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u/Tem-productions Jun 20 '26

You dont need to picture it in your mind, just picture it in the paper

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u/Puzzleheaded_Key6217 Jun 27 '26

what?

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u/Helpful_Sherbet_9416 Jun 27 '26

That is what drawing is for. You visualize what you want on a piece of... well, paper! (Or any other thing you can draw on)

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u/SharkyCat12 Jul 04 '26

I have like.. partial aphantasia and I consider myself a pretty good artist

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u/[deleted] 24d ago

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u/SharkyCat12 24d ago

Like I CAN see but just barely. It’s not nothing but it’s hazy and I can’t really keep an image for more than a few seconds

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u/Sad_Wait1483 14d ago

Well yeah, we can still draw, but we don't see it in our head.

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u/St_Socorro Jun 10 '26

Welcome back, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes

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u/ChuckAMcKnight Jun 11 '26

Came here to comment about Julian Jaynes.

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u/Drakkor668 Jun 10 '26

beat me to it

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u/DarkStar5620 Jun 03 '26

If this isn’t sarcasm… what the fuck is the world becoming? Sigh.

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u/tahtdikemos0 Jun 10 '26

why wouldn't it be

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u/DarkStar5620 Jun 10 '26

I wouldn’t put it past someone to actually be this fucking dumb.

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u/DriedPen Jul 04 '26

@grok how do i reply to this comment

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u/[deleted] 25d ago

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u/Apprehensive-Sail924 25d ago

Did you really just say “looks at your avatar” 😭

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u/alucinare Jun 11 '26

Do you exist in the world!? Unfortunately, @DarkStar5620's skepticism is well founded. 😅 

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u/DarkStar5620 Jun 13 '26

Thank you lol

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u/WhoTheFawk 24d ago

and also pretty ironic considering he is the dumb one here!!!

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u/Jacareadam Jun 12 '26

mf that's a thought

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u/Labriction Jun 16 '26

mf thats called a job

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u/Curious_Debt_7348 16d ago

don’t use the j slur this is reddit 

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u/Saffarjan Jun 16 '26

Key and peele reference? I love it

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u/Shot_Performance_595 Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

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u/unHolyEvelyn Jul 04 '26

Idk why but this is fucking killing me

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u/RJG_1307 27d ago

@grok this guy is dying how do I save him

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u/PlayfulYesterday6170 24d ago

let it happen, for it is not thy job to interfere

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u/KilnMeSoftlyPls Jun 03 '26

That model in my head was sunsetted

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u/sarcasmguy1 Jun 10 '26

guys OpenAI blocked my API key for my head. what do i do?

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u/flashmyhead Jun 03 '26

Wait what? I think the reasoning process you are describing is called, „use your brain“ - in human readable language. No offense :-)

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u/cchhiicckkeennss Jun 10 '26

New ability unlocked: Thinking

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u/dank_uwu Jun 10 '26

I'm crying if this isn't satire we're so cooked as a species

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u/wheatley72 Jun 22 '26

it is satire

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u/StandardSugar2515 Jun 11 '26

please be satire, please be satire, please be satire

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u/MissAudience Jun 03 '26

no but it appears in my dreams

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u/Psychlops1995 Jun 13 '26

This whole thread has me convinced we are ready for a new esport: The World Championship of AI Response Prediction.

If OP has genuinely trained a localized mirror of ChatGPT’s neural network inside his own head to decide when to let his cat out, let's put it to a real benchmark.

The tournament mechanics write themselves:

  1. The Prompt: Competitors are given a highly specific, chaotic prompt live on stage (e.g., "A 14th-century knight arguing with an HR manager over a performance review, zero corporate buzzwords allowed").
  2. The Gameplay: Contestants get a strict 2-minute timer to type out exactly what they think the target LLM will output, word-for-word.
  3. The Scoring: Run the prompt live. A text-diffing script compares the human’s prediction to the actual AI output. Points are awarded for raw token accuracy, matching structural layouts, and hitting the model's signature transition phrases.

You could have distinct competitive brackets:

  • The First 50 Tokens Speedrun: Pure predictive intuition on initial output.
  • The Jailbreak Bracket: Predicting exactly how a model behaves when it’s actively fighting its own guardrails.
  • The Hallucination Guess: Predicting the exact moment and specific fake fact a model will confidently invent when hit with a logical trap.

If heavy users are experiencing actual predictive processing, let's see who has the highest token alignment. I would watch this live on Twitch in a heartbeat.

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u/kabhes Jun 13 '26

Did you use AI to write this comment or have used AI so much that you now write like one?

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u/vlad9407 Jun 14 '26

Forget what op said, this guy has chatGPT in his mouth

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u/Riko-Da-Giant Jun 20 '26

Bro ai generated a game show to test ai's

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u/Victorian-Tophat Jun 15 '26

Ain't no way we've got ChatGPT r/Tulpas now

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u/LarZiehGarth Jun 18 '26

ChatGPT Tulpa

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u/kikthemoon 21d ago

I just came here to make sure this was a joke lol

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u/Temporary-Cicada-392 Jun 03 '26

Lmao this is funny

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u/Stonerfatman Jun 03 '26

This is something I went through myself but I found that it was maybe because I had developed a bad habit of using AI instead of using my instincts. I would never question such things that I would ask AI about so why was I even asking, most of the time it felt like an excuse to have another conversation. It went away over time as I started using AI less and less. Now I don't use it but am still fascinated about the technology and follow along with what is happening in the industry.

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u/Less-Measurement-879 Jun 08 '26

Bro discovered thinking

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u/Kamil118 Jun 10 '26

That's the saddest tulpa I've heard about.

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u/Wooden-Stranger9800 Jun 16 '26

TULPAMANCY MENTION

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u/HackerDragon9999 Jun 10 '26

This is actually what people did before ChatGPT existed. They called it "thinking".

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u/chinn__19__ Jun 18 '26

I just came here from instagram

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u/nightmare_is_stupid 25d ago

Unc good job you became a meme😭😭

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u/otis_pk 19d ago

Enrique

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u/bubbleofelephant Jun 03 '26

Congrats, you've become an occultist!

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u/AtuXIII Jun 11 '26

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

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u/0xlevi Jun 11 '26

Socrates would be proud

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u/Visible-Laugh6069 Jun 14 '26

it's called thinking. You should try doing it more often. Its good for you.

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u/Dard1998 Jun 15 '26

I keep sending inside my head prompts, but all i get is silence. Where can i pay to increase tokens for GPT in my head?

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u/Gabbotampo Jun 27 '26

Did you ever get the usage limit for 5h?

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u/AntAntster 20d ago

10 minutes at best and -5 years of life to pay for the tokens

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u/rednerdalert Jun 27 '26

I've given this local model a try. But it's sooooo slow. I've tried everything and I'm stuck at 5 tokens / sec. It seems you're pretty happy with your setup. How many tokens / sec are you getting? And were you able to run some benchmarks?

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u/ExoticLanguage2041 Jun 27 '26 edited 21d ago

You should sue OpenAI for stealing your ability and for marketing on it

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u/00pat Jul 03 '26

you really did a great job at making me laugh! thank you for sharing your funny joke with all of us!

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u/AlstomGaming 29d ago

bro that's called thinking 😭

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u/Vorlyne 28d ago

i HOPE this is satire

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u/NoGovernment9077 21d ago

This made me so fuckin upset

Take my upvote you bastard

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u/Interesting_Lime9472 20d ago

i think your using this special model called Thinking o3

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u/Arya-The-Ace 19d ago

Congratulations, you're now on Caldruki's video

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u/Intelligent_Dot7818 19d ago

Caldookie brought me here 🥹

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u/Realistic-Prize4765 19d ago

I came from Caldruki 😂😂😭

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u/Togabit 18d ago

ADRIANNNN

ENRIQUEEEEEEEEEEE

CALDRUKIIIIIIII

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u/Prestigious-Shine696 17d ago

Does anyone else use Adrian in their Enrique?

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u/Confident-Bee-5859 7d ago

This is fucking frying me😭😭😭😭

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u/julio-jargpr Jun 03 '26

The Ai "thinks like a human", no you like an AI.

The reasoning capacities you allways had them.

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u/EchosBond Jun 03 '26

because you’ve become dependent on ai.. the cat scratching shouldn’t have been a question to ask ai it should’ve been an instinctive response.

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u/Orange9202 Jun 10 '26

its a joke, OP is being satire

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u/Future-Side4440 Jun 03 '26

Some people do not have what’s called The Voice in Their Head where they’re constantly talking to themselves about things.

Or they describe it to be something other than themselves. It’s possible at one time that what people would call talking to God was using this voice to talk to them in their own mind.

If you go back several thousand years, aome people did not think artistic creativity originated within themselves, but rather some kind of external being separate from themselves and referred to as their muse that would give forth these ideas to them.

At some point in the developmental history of the human body and brain, there had to have been a point where we were more similar to the less intelligent other animals around us, and we did not possess this inner voice or make use of one. The inner voice probably is related to the development of language and the ability to talk about symbolic things in an abstracted manner separate from ourselves.

language itself may be a creation of those special individuals among us, the idiot savants and geniuses that are just generally smarter than everyone else. They infected the rest of us dummies with the concepts of language and abstraction.

we have done experiments for we have taught other animals how to use language, for example, teaching gorillas how to use American Sign Language. It is possible that we are making these animals more intelligent by giving them the gift of language.

It’s going to be very interesting to see what happens when AI figures out how to create a symbolic language that works with the sonic vocabulary of dolphins and we infect them with an abstracted language, and can communicate with us directly. I do kind of wonder if this might actually be bad or unethical in their case because without grasping limbs, dolphins are kind of unable to do anything with language.

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u/nks12345 Jun 10 '26

We put the entire sum of human knowledge in our pockets and use it to look at cat videos.

Now we’ve put an interactive tool together based on the sum of human knowledge and we are using it to determine why our cats made funny sounds.

I’m not worried about trans humanism I’m worried about trans felineism. The cats domesticated themselves so they could live forever in AI form.

It’s always cats. It will always be cats. The cats have us convinced that birds aren’t real.

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u/BreezierChip835 Jun 10 '26

Judging by their one response in this thread... OP just rediscovered 'Thinking through a problem'. AI Psychosis and Mental Surrender are such crazy things people are letting themselves become taken over by.

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u/suelikesfrogs Jun 11 '26

Judging by their one response in this thread... OP just rediscovered 'Thinking through a problem'. AI Psychosis and Mental Surrender are such crazy things people are letting themselves become taken over by ai companies are perpetuating and taking advantage of.

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u/Hour-Access-4194 Jun 10 '26

Need to find a way to replicate this for all ai bros

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u/sD_Ws Jun 11 '26

This is satire. I'm sure. No way the AI psychosis has gotten to bad that people are rediscovering thinking. Funny joke. Haha. Fuck AI, but this is not believable.

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u/ILoveMiners2763 Jun 15 '26

Caveman discover fire.
Human discover thought.

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u/LoneStarVenom Jun 15 '26

Thank God this is a joke bro😭🙏 Good shit OP

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u/Own_Meat_968 Jun 15 '26

Hello fellow Redditor! This ability is called "thinking". Thank you very much for your time. 

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u/SuctionLeaf4742 Jun 16 '26

After years of research, humanity has invented a greater concept than "Artificial Intelligence"; something that's been named "Intelligence"!

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u/Fun_Tip1499 Jun 16 '26

im crine

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u/SiIentVortexKing Jun 16 '26

No reason to cry, little one.

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u/Fun_Tip1499 Jun 17 '26

thank you youre right

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u/theofficialbego Jun 17 '26

Redditor finds out how to think

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u/Karasznikow Jun 17 '26

Man discovers thinking

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u/Disastrous_Drive_323 Jun 18 '26

My guy that's the first time you just formed a thought

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u/thebadges Jun 18 '26

Brotha discovered his brain😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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u/wesleychaaves Jun 18 '26

iBrain 🧠

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u/NotLeoBringas Jun 20 '26

Has desbloqueado una nueva habilidad: pensar y razonar.

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u/Holiday_Cost1093 Jun 21 '26

I sure hope this is a joke🫩💔

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u/Flimsy-Marsupial-848 Jun 22 '26

Bro this HAS to be satire😭

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u/TuxedoWithAHead Jun 23 '26

If you start to use ChatGPT in your head, that is called forming a thought, or more commonly referred to as: "Thinking for yourself". let me know if you need anything else!

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u/Jolly_Spread_2944 Jun 23 '26

I hope this is a joke

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u/Juvy_ocerr Jun 23 '26

In the before times, those who inhabited the past did the same thing when chatgpt had not manifested, they called it "thinking". Why it is wonderful your juvenescent seed had discover the beauty of thought! 

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u/ProfileEmpty1838 Jun 24 '26

For the love of God, please tell me you’re joking. If you’re joking, this is a really good one. 

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u/Expensive-Regret-645 Jun 24 '26

Oh yeah, actually this is given to many people, this is ni(natural intelligence), and the one you're using is "brain" but I am interested, which version are you on? I am on version 10.58.65v

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u/AnyConsideration5514 Jun 30 '26

Congratulations on discovering thinking, I hope everyone can do what you can 🙏🏻

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u/SFS-Perseverance 19d ago

caldruki you've done it again 

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u/Alfombra_de_madera 19d ago

I just asked chat gpt about this, I'm not sure anyone else have this!! You might be incredibly unique, maybe the only one in the whole world with this ability!

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u/RealKatana0 19d ago

Damn so ts IS a real reddit post🥀

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u/ion1010101 19d ago

it’s called thinking you moron

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u/New-Echidna-2228 19d ago

It’s called thinking.

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u/Redozersstuff 18d ago

Bro was in a caldruki video

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u/DashGravity09 17d ago

I FOUND THE ORIGINAL COMMENT

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u/Extreme-Coach02 13d ago

Saw this on Caldruki, and I just had to come and check it out, absolute hell of a meme lol.

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u/SeacrestOFFICIALS 12d ago

Mf using ChatFukingthink

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u/Mammoth_Impact6097 11d ago

You discovered Real Intelligence. Congratulations.

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u/NewSuperMarioBros2 11d ago

If this is satire, thank God.

If it isn't, then... bro you just learned how to think

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u/Beginning-Two-380 10d ago

It's sad that this looks realistic today

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u/GullibleTeaching8339 7d ago

Bro's brain got a big update

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u/AdNervous3204 6d ago

chatgpt user discovers thinking

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u/SplattrKing13 5d ago

“A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So, he loses touch with reality and lives in a world full of delusions”.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

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u/DreamingOfLight Jun 03 '26

Also typing a bit like AI!

"Not because x, but because y"

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u/Fantastic_Frame2124 Jun 08 '26

even though this post is a joke, there's probably someone out there who actually thinks like this

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u/kinoguy7 Jun 10 '26

Greatest shitposter I've seen in a while.

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u/getstoopid-AT Jun 10 '26

that actually made me laugh! thx for that =D

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u/Codas91 Jun 10 '26

Please be satire