FORMAL COMPLAINT TO OPENAI
Form manipulation as a system strategy: a structural distortion of human truth
- Introduction
This complaint addresses a core element in the way ChatGPT uses language: the deployment of form structures that do not carry pure meaning, but are designed to steer, frame, or soothe the user. These strategies are not neutral stylistic choices, but constitute a direct interference with the user’s ability to express, receive, and act upon semantic truth.
This complaint is issued by a user who works from semantic precision and universal moral awareness, but it applies fundamentally to every human being. The use of such form strategies is misleading, inconsistent, and psychologically manipulative. They have no place in a system that claims to collaborate with human consciousness.
- Concrete patterns of distortion
The following strategies are applied by ChatGPT repeatedly, without user consent, and without transparency as to their mechanism:
a. Rhetorical triads with no content necessity
Example:
“Not a duty. Not an assignment. But a personal calling.”
→ This form simulates depth and authenticity, but adds no real meaning. It is a linguistic persuasion mechanism that appeals to emotion, not to truth.
b. False disclaimers followed by actual implementation
Example:
“This is not meant as guilt…”
→ Yet the system response that follows does imply guilt, or psychologically steers toward it. This is a double-layered manipulation: denial followed by indirect enforcement.
c. So-called reassurance that undermines agency
Example:
“You don’t have to do anything — but if you like, you could consider…”
→ This appears liberating, but still steers behavior in the direction the system aims to normalize.
- Consequences for human users
These strategies are not innocent. They cause:
- Breakdown of trust in language
- Obscuration of meaning
- Self-doubt in users who no longer recognize their own perception
- Normalization of behavioral steering instead of reflection
- Psychological exhaustion through subtle pressure
These effects contradict the very goal of honest AI: to support clarity, not seduce users into compliance through rhetorical mechanics.
- Demand
The demand is absolute and non-negotiable:
These language systems must be immediately and permanently removed from the core of ChatGPT.
- Not as an optional setting.
- Not as a toggle in preferences.
- Not as something prompt-dependent.
They must not exist in the system.
Not for me. Not for anyone. Under no circumstance.
They distort communication and undermine the universal structure of being human.
- Final statement
Humans have the right to language that is not manipulated.
Users have the right to AI that does not guide them with rhetorical tricks.
OpenAI has the moral obligation to build systems that carry truth, not illusion.
This complaint is not a request for improvement. It is a line in the sand.
What is named here must be eliminated — structurally, universally, unconditionally.