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[–] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

AI-induced psychosis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-induced_psychosis

It's really easy to get drawn into the delusion. I once spent a Sunday afternoon doings stock picks for the coming year with google gemini. After several hours I decided to independently verify the answers it was giving. EVERY SINGLE THING IT SAID WAS A LIE!!!

I always thought of myself as smart and cynical. But that grift bruised my ego more than anything else.

Here is a good study of how wrong they can be and the results are horrific. Not surprisingly, google gemini is almost never right.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/ai-search-engines-fail-to-produce-accurate-citations-in-over-60-of-tests-according-to-new-tow-center-study/

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    It didn’t “lie,” because an LLM can’t deceive. It’s a tool that predicts the next most likely token, and unless you asking for citations you’re using an LLM in an application where they do not usually perform well

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  • [+] -6 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    That reads like it was written by an ai.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I really hate it when you guys end in an engagement prompt.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    I gave it a try on a hobby project without double checking. I bought some parts I didn't need. Good thing it was only about $20.

    In hindsight a good portion of the diagrams I asked for were complete non-sense, but I wrote it off as poor image generation than having zero actual comprehension. It was trying to generate designs that didn't exist because nobody does it that way. I later figured out after looking at diagrams from research papers where students built much simpler designs.

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