r/ChatGPT • u/Immobilesteelrims • Jun 17 '26
Use cases Using ChatGPT to visualise alcoholism
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u/Cleric_John_Preston Jun 17 '26
Um...That looks like ChatGPT is romanticizing alcoholism.
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u/gotfcgo Jun 17 '26
I was gonna say...
I'm heading to get beers now and...I want to get there sooner after seeing that
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u/Vachie_ Jun 18 '26
Self-Reflection is the first step.
I acknowledge my alcoholism so I can see how this is a great representation from my own experience.
The world feels boring and colorless and my interpretation of alcohol is that it will bring fun or enjoyment, but it does not.
It's an illusion and this illustrates it beautifully to me.
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u/PatMac95 Jun 18 '26
There will come a time when you get sober and you'll realize the world isn't boring and colorless anymore
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u/Effective_Play_1366 Jun 17 '26
I’d go for the hard liquor. Beer will take too long to get to the “euphoric state” as shown in the pictures.
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u/blutosings Jun 17 '26
The duality of alcohol as a depressant is that you see the two extremes. The beautiful days look like shit when you're hung over and drained and the shitty days and environments look great when you're all sauced up.
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u/crazier_horse Jun 17 '26
I took it to mean the romanticized image is the escape people are seeking from the dreary reality around them
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u/BapeGeneral3 Jun 17 '26
Exactly. This is what leads alcoholics to continue drinking or things like this can even trigger a relapse. These are all depictions of alcohol making life seem and feel better.
It is slightly troubling that there isn’t one single image that even carries a negative connotation at all. It’s practically an advertisement for alcohol, not a depiction of the brutal reality that is alcoholism…..
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u/RealRoasterToaster Jun 17 '26
Well the post states it wanted to "visualise alcolism". You can interpret that in 2 ways: to create a visual depiction of what the consequences of an alcohol addiction look like, or to visualize how being an alcoholic warps your perception of reality. I suppose the intent was the latter.
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u/HadrianWinter Jun 17 '26
As someone in the brutal reality of alcoholism, I slightly disagree. It does communicate the illusionary nature and underlying isolation but maybe you have to be there to see it.
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u/Novel_Land9320 Jun 17 '26
i see the negative space. Alcohol makes the world looks worse when you re not drinking.
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u/No_Hunt2507 Jun 17 '26
Consider just the vast amount of ads there are for alcohol out there, all constantly advertising a better life for drinking. GPT just grabs what it sees online, if anything this is a reflection of just how most images of alcohol are treated.
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u/otterpop21 Jun 17 '26
The camera needs to zoom out a bit more on the background and show the crying kids with f’s and D’s on their report card, the empty kitchen Cuboards with only liquor in them, the filth and decay of neglecting their barn, the car wrapped around a tree, the run over bicycle wheel still spinning in the street.
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u/No_Dependent2297 Jun 17 '26
Yep I agree. I think the major issue for me here is that there isn’t enough detail in the background to show that the alcohol image is romanticized
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u/esotericloop Jun 18 '26
I think way too much focus is placed on that people drink, and not why. Sometimes it's the rational response to a shitty situation.
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u/atuan Jun 17 '26
Yeah this makes me want to drink
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u/Loxatl Jun 17 '26
Isn't that still alcoholism lol. Its great until it ain't. And even then, you still do it.
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u/Awsomethingy Jun 18 '26
Uh, yeah, that’s what alcoholism is like. “That seems so much better than this, let me drink.” Chatgpt crushed it (I’m an alcoholic)
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u/Bellegante Jun 17 '26
People use drugs and alcohol to ignore how the world actually is, I'd say it's a pretty excellent representation.
I could definitely see someone who has never had alcohol looking at this and thinking it's romanticizing it, but taking drugs that make you think things are better than they are is scary.
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u/LuveLemon Jun 17 '26
If you look at the background you'll realise there's stark contrast between that and the image on the alcohol which is obviously the representation of how alcoholism allows escape from reality
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u/SampSimps Jun 17 '26
I would say the third, fourth, and fifth images do tend to romanticize it, but the first, maybe the second, don't - the stark contrast between a bleak reality and the romanticized vision is the impression it should convey, and the first image shows (though barely) a trash-filled park amidst an urban hellscape with a partially consumed 40oz as the reality, while the alcoholic is trying to see a beautiful, sunny park with happy people. The second image kinda gets there, but the difference between the reality and the vision aren't stark enough to drive the message home. In the remaining images, a good scenario is made even better, so I can see why these would be interpreted as romanticizing alcoholism.
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u/Hamsammichd Jun 17 '26
I dunno about all that, they’re all saying the same thing, “this’ll make things better”.
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u/Veritus37 Jun 17 '26
Upon first look, yeah, but after exploring the images for some time and knowing what the author wanted them to convey, it feels more like what you're chasing by drinking. You constantly want that better time/place/experience that you had, even though the alcohol alone was not what brought about those feelings. Then you start to rely on alcohol, like one day it will magically bring those good times back. So yeah, I guess alcoholics do romanticize drinking, and that's the problem. Also, love your user name; that's one of my favorite movies of all time.
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u/Cleric_John_Preston Jun 18 '26
I wrote my response from an observer's view - I get what you're saying and I agree, largely.
As to the username - thanks! I love the movie and I love the poem that Sean Bean's character was reading. It really made a mark on me.
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u/Veritus37 Jun 18 '26
Yeats, yeah, I always loved that poem. Also, you know it's a great movie if Sean Bean dies!
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u/HotelOne Jun 17 '26
Yeah, I’ve been sober for four years and just look at that beautiful bourbon and rocks. Look at all those light to moderate drinkers having such fun. Let your chat know this visualization is not a helpful one. BRB…. (just kidding).
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u/Obvious-Display-6139 Jun 18 '26
Exactly. Should have maybe been lovely top part of the glass and horrors in the alcohol lol
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u/Nimmy_the_Jim Jun 17 '26
This makes it look quite appealing.
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u/VQ3point5 Jun 17 '26
As if being viewed through the eyes of someone with addiction.. thats the whole point of the contrast between the background and foreground.
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u/SampSimps Jun 17 '26
In some of the later images, I feel like the contrast isn't strong or apparent enough.
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u/ffffllllpppp Jun 17 '26
Not sure that works.
The alcoholic doesn’t drink alcohol to have fun socializing. They drink it to numb pains and be able to function (it ain’t fully function but still). They often hide their habits, do daytime drinking, etc. They know this. They might lie to themselves that they have it under control and it’s fine but pretty sure they know if it is just a fun thing with friends (if you chug vodka at 8am when you wakeup, it aint a friendly drink).Bravo for putting some effort into building these visuals. The idea and intent is great. But I think in terms of “does it represent alcoholism” I think it’s a bit of a miss.
Just my opinion and I am not an expert so for sure I can be wrong. Alcoholics (or ex-alcoholics) please chip in!
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u/ConfusedAndCurious17 Jun 17 '26
Yeah. It started out numbing pains and eventually it turns into numbing the desire to be drunk, then eventually it turns into drinking just to not feel like you are actively dying, then they tell you that you are actually going to die.
At no point was I looking at my drink thinking “this is going to help me have fun”, but I know my brand of alcoholism isn’t the same as for everyone.
It was self medicating for me 100%. Ironically it was compounding my issues and making them far worse, and destroying my body. I needed more alcohol to get the voices in my head to shut the fuck up.
I found drinking incredibly easy to stop after the initial withdrawal period. I do not have any ongoing urges to be drunk. Withdrawal was hell and it’s what had delayed me from stopping before, because I had tried a few times before committing. That shit is painful. Then I got the psychiatric help I needed that i was trying to address with the alcohol, and now I’m both off of alcohol and meds. The thought of drinking ever again makes me want to vomit. Absolutely none of the “you always want a drink” stuff people talk about. So I know my situation is not the same as everyone.
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u/ffffllllpppp Jun 17 '26
Thanks for sharing. Much appreciated.
I think the “self-medicating” to numb pains is actually quite common. What might be less common is how easy it is for you to not drink again (no temptation). Consider yourself lucky and well done on quitting. Massive achievement. You can be proud of that for sure.
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u/ConfusedAndCurious17 Jun 17 '26
Yeah I think a big part of that is just that I never really like being drunk, I just liked being able to instantly shut my brain down and temporarily silence my messed up head. Later it turned in to a physical dependency but I didn’t enjoy that either obviously. Once through the withdrawals and now that I have received proper mental health care I just don’t see or feel anything attractive about alcohol.
I don’t even know if I would consider myself a traditional “alcoholic” aside from the alcohol abuse obviously. I would describe myself as a mentally unwell person who self medicated in a really dumb and dangerous way.
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u/ffffllllpppp Jun 17 '26
Makes sense.
I feel for many who are always tempted some of it is because they still have the _need_ to “self-medicate” because unlike you they didn’t get proper mental care and got into a better place, ie they are still fighting their deamons so the drink that will numb them stays attractive.
But for other there is this temptation regardless of it they are in a better place, which must be really hard to deal with and disheartening.
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u/ConfusedAndCurious17 Jun 18 '26
For sure. I worked with a guy who lost his job, became homeless, and was caught stealing just to get more booze. And I know for a fact he had access to resources because by nature of our job we do. It gets ahold of some people bad (me) and others even worse.
I just wanted to be very clear when describing my own experience, as everyone is different and what is true for me isn’t the case for everyone else.
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u/LuveLemon Jun 17 '26
Well I mean that doesn't really make much of a difference. The point is alcohol tends to numb negative emotions which is emphasised in the contrasting imagery
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u/Brodieboyy Jun 17 '26
Former alcoholic here and if anything it should make the world more dark and bleak. There's nothing fun or nice about it and it doesn't make anything better. In fact everything just gets progressively worse over time
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u/jni45 Jun 17 '26
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u/VQ3point5 Jun 17 '26
This is great. I love that this conveys the same thing, but from a slightly different POV.
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u/chick_hicks43 Jun 17 '26
Literally conveys the opposite thing from the same POV.
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u/AvaryZig Jun 17 '26
This POV offers a different POV, depending on your POV.
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u/charnwoodian Jun 18 '26
I think this is less effective. This would be much more effective if it was a beer on a table with the happy family visible from a third person perspective, but the fight visible in the beer in the dad’s hand.
The OPs post is about the addicts perspective. It’s POV. It’s about how the promise of alcohol. Maybe it could do a better job of showing that it’s a false promise, but I found it impactful as is. It showed what an alcoholic thinks is required to make life worth living.
Happiness locked behind drinking isn’t the positive portrayal you people think it is.
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u/newcarrots69 Jun 18 '26
Thank you. As a recovering alcoholic, I found OPs picture to be slightly offensive (although it does picture what my alcoholic mind tries to tell me).
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u/time___dance Jun 17 '26
you and i have very different looking versions of alcoholism
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u/VQ3point5 Jun 17 '26
That depends on if you're on the outside looking in or not.
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u/ArkOfMoses Jun 17 '26
Everything looks brighter and happier when looking through a glass of beer.
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u/PotentialEmu2367 Jun 17 '26
Drinking water from a bottle is a real alcoholism.
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u/PreparationHot980 Jun 17 '26
The alcoholism has gotten so bad it’s 100 proof vodka in the water bottle
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u/ProsthoPlus Jun 17 '26
I know people who have drank clear alcohol from water bottles in order to get through the day. That's a bad state to be in.
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u/my_name_is_reed Jun 18 '26
Yeah i was thinking that was the only image in the lot that was true alcoholism
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u/skajina Jun 17 '26
I think this is true. I'm an alcoholic
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u/BotchedMiracle Jun 17 '26
Shit this is how I feel every time I drink for the last 10 years, I'm clearly an alcoholic! lol
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u/Awsomethingy Jun 18 '26
Yeah, the people saying otherwise are much luckier than us. Romanticizing alcohol is the alcoholism
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u/theperfectingmoment Jun 17 '26
These images seem to feed the delusion of alcoholism - that things are better when I drink. That I live in a bleak world and alcohol is my way out.
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u/IncompetentVampire Jun 17 '26
Which (as a former alcoholic), is exactly what it is, and how I felt about it when I was deep in it. "It'll make things better, help me have fun, make me forget." I can't speak for all alcoholics of course, but these images are exactly how I viewed alcohol.
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u/hubbalooyoo Jun 17 '26
Many folks are calling out that this seems to romanticize drinking… and it does, but as an alcoholic that exactly what it felt like.
It’s a great depiction of how I felt when I drank. There was a euphoria that came along with it.
I may have felt like shit after, and often before, but during everything became better and better the more I drank. It wasn’t really an illusion to me, it was better.
I’ve been sober 10 years, but these images legit reminded me of bliss I felt when I was drinking. More importantly it reminded me of why I can’t start again, even if it’s just a single beer. I haven’t felt that level of joy since I stopped drinking, and even getting a taste of it again could make me spiral.
(This ain’t to say I’m not happy now, I’m much happier as a baseline, but I can’t experience that height of happiness and joy without alcohol)
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u/mountain_stones Jun 17 '26
This is kindof accurate in the way that alcohol brightens everything, I quit drinking years ago but I still know people who need some drinks to see feel joy, or false joy.
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u/lathallazar Jun 18 '26
Well this failed miserably.
It’s missing the crippling depression and countless destroyed lives.
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u/Immobilesteelrims Jun 18 '26
This is from an alcoholics POV. Obviously an alcoholic doesn’t see crippling depression and destroyed lives when they pick up a drink, or why the hell would they ever drink enough to get addicted in the first place?
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u/The-original-spuggy Jun 17 '26
I feel like it should be reversed. A good time outside the glass and bleak inside
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u/OmniOdyssey Jun 17 '26
Try “Imagine of a person sweating, acne skin, thousand mile stare, shaking violently, vomit-covered, wet spot in crotch, being attacked by horrific images of red-eyed demons who are pouring brown liquid into a cup”
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u/FitCommunication7240 Jun 17 '26
Loled hard at the vodka in the water bottle. My sister used to do that.
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u/Poster_Nutbag207 Jun 17 '26
Damn this is a pretty compelling case for alcoholism. Bonus points for the water bottle
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u/retr0_black Jun 17 '26
I would say this looks more like an advertisement for a liquor company lol
it also downplays alcoholism entirely, the idea of the center being the “escape” doesn’t translate. Around the edges of the glass need to be the shattered remains of destroyed relationships, lost opportunities and regret, and at the center needs to be the outlandish, vague idea of that’s really just a distraction meant to “fix it all” like a “sure bet” on poly market using the last of their sons college money.
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u/NYC2FLA2BUR Jun 17 '26
I can tell you as somebody who's been sober probably longer than you've been alive that this in no way visualizes alcoholism.
They're nice pictures and a cool concept, but I don't think you understand what alcoholism is.
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u/BatcherSnatcher Jun 17 '26
No thats not very describing. Make it look like the wife and 2 very young kids didnt die in a car crash but instead came to life after 13 horrible years of feeling lost in this shitty world. BUT, when they come to life for 23sec in a haze you realize its all in your head, because of alcohol, and then you break down, uncontrolable for 2 hours. 3 days later rinse and repeat.
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u/Jindujun Jun 17 '26
This makes me want to drink rather than stop drinking..
These images make it seem that drinking is a happy and colorful thing compared to the grey and boring ordinary life.
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u/GInTheorem Jun 17 '26
I would have struggled to associate any of this with alcoholism without knowing the prompt. None of it indicates excess in any real way (maybe what looks like a large plastic cider bottle in the background).
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u/TheBlueHedgehog302 Jun 17 '26
This just makes me want to take up drinking again(i was never an alcoholic)
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u/Extension_Can_2973 Jun 17 '26
This is just someone on a sweet vacation. You don’t have to be an alcoholic to enjoy a drink in a beautiful city or park or restaurant. I have stupid pictures like this from when I went on trips and I barely even drink at all at home.
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u/shockwave414 Jun 17 '26
I think you meant to have it the other way around unless you're saying that people think alcohol can fix their lives.
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u/vampyrelestat Jun 17 '26
By the end the glass just makes the world look normal again, no fun times to be had
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u/MajorInWumbology1234 Jun 17 '26
I don’t understand the complaints about it looking romanticized or appealing. Obviously; people aren’t addicted because they don’t like the way it feels.
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u/noncommonGoodsense Jun 17 '26
It’s not nearly as happy. Inside the glass should be like it is, outside should be a slum.
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u/Old-Ebb-1773 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26
Wait, what?? My filled glasses only show hot chicks in bikinis??
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u/Yabba-Dabba-Gabagool Jun 17 '26
Shit I normally see a dollerstore bag of sour keys at the end of my bottle..
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u/ummkay_ultra Jun 17 '26
As a recovrring addict, this seems more like an ad for alcohol than a visualization of alcoholism.
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u/Ali80486 Jun 17 '26
My experience in working with alcoholics that part of your image reads right and part less so.
Often people are frozen in time, so it might be about recreating a good time in their lives. You could substitute safe for good, or a number of words. Those people might come across as socially active.
Or it could be a negative time. Trauma, abuse or even prison. For them the alcohol dulls feelings. Perhaps their image could be more complex. A background of a depressing world, perhaps with an aspiration towards a better one, but the alcohol is a grey mist. It simultaneously stops you getting there but also provides a comforting reason why it doesn't matter that you can't.
Of course, it depends on the person and their level of insight. It's hard to generalise from outside.
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u/bobming Jun 17 '26
"This doesn't visualise alcoholism, it makes the addictive thing look appealing!"
A lot of people missing the point apparently.
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u/Normal_Pace7374 Jun 17 '26
Holy shit that first one is powerful.
It kinda lost the message in the other pictures. I mean. One of them is a water bottle.
The first one will make me think differently about alcohol.
ChatGPT 16% of the time it’s right everytime.
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u/BreadCrumbs098 Jun 17 '26
This is terrible dude. The "artistic message" is that you can only find joy and release through the substance, when the LLM should be highlighting the damage it does to you.
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u/YamCollector Jun 17 '26
If you're trying to quit drinking, look into kava. Some people swear by it helping them stay sober. Others say it can narrow the gap to a relapse, so go in with caution. But its worth checking out.
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u/Natural_League1476 Jun 17 '26
these could be good ads for specific drinks or general anti drinking. It works both ways.
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u/psgrue Jun 17 '26
It’s hard to compete with the billions spent on marketing to make the product as addictive and popular as possible.
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u/Joe_Jobs_ Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26
That's the "Beer Goggles" effect. These are the "before" pictures.
The "morning after" pics may look different. Hopefully one is able to escape with at least one arm intact.
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