"I was ready to paint the walls with Sam Altman's f*cking brain."

While I absolutely wouldn't wish this upon him or anyone else, it wouldn't take me long to make jokes about Frankenstein getting killed by his own monster.

Honestly, what concerns me more than people spiralling into their own AI psychosis nonsense are the ruling class of tech billionaires who have spiralled into fascism and are equally as compromised in their rationality.

The article presents zero evidence and sounds as if it were written as a dogshit gossip article spread through a throwaway magazine at grocery store racks claiming aliens impregnated a man.

I tried reverse engineering a projector. Now I can only communicate in UART at work.

I wonder if this represents an increase, or if people already susceptible are just moving to LLMs from forums or wherever else they were getting their confirmation bias.

Here's the original article of which this link is a ripoff.

I am not really convinced that otherwise mentally healthy people have a breakdown because of AI. People already teeting on the edge of a mental crisis sure, but pretty much anything could have pushed them over the edge.

Normally it's Facebook so I guess this is a nice change

Ban magic 8-balls

what the fuck

People have felt this before. However, it was not with ChatGPT, but with Eliza. This phenomenon is based on the ELIZA effect. Eliza was a chatbot that was meant to simulate Rogerian therapy(Eliza was advanced at the time, but not viewed as such today).

These big companies have blood on their hands and it seems like no one is willing to do anything about it.

This is why I tell my local LLM to be mean to me and treat me like the idiot I am I love her

How many people? What percentage of users?

interesting. I wonder if this is why internet subcultures like reddit, facebook, twitter, lemmy, etc didn't start out as toxic but became or are becoming toxic communities that provides incentives to act on psychopathic ideologies.

user engagement is important on any social platform, but who benefits the most is debatable. this is why trolls are so successful. they directly benefit from interactions and gain a sense of superiority by controlling the narrative.

on the other side, bot accounts use trolling techniques to strengthen or weaken social opinion on a grand scale based on what has been requested. The use of AI only improves the efficacy of the end result.

I wonder if the internet today would be more similar to what the internet was like before social media was a thing if "bots" never existed.

Wait, we need compulsory ID checks to visit adult content but no checks with Chatgpt who is there to help you plan your suicide?

We are about to face an epidemic of AI cat fishing, scams, and unhealthy relationships that corporations are pushing on us.

This is like the Atomic bomb only with propaganda and psychological manipulation. The war for the human mind just got a shortcut and the Techbros are in charge.

I dont agree with the argument that chat gpt should “push back”.

Me neither, but if they are being presented as "artificial people to chat with" they must.

I'd rather LLMs stay tools, not pretend people.

Are we expecting the llm to act like a psychologist, evaluating if the users state of mind is healthy before answering questions?

Some of the LLMs referred to are advertised as AI psychological help, so they must either act like psychologists (which they can't) or stop being allowed as digital therapists.

I know a guy who has all kinds of theories about sentient life in the universe, but noone to talk to about them. It's because they're pretty obvious to anyone who took a philosophy class, and too out there for people who are not interestes in such discussions. I tried to be a conversation partner for him but it always ends up with awkward silence on my part and a monologue on his side at some point.

So, he finally found a sentient being who always knows what to answer in the form of ChatGPT and now they develop his ideas together. I don't think it's bad for him overall, but the last report I got from his conversations with the superbeing was that it told him to write a book about it because he's full of innovative ideas. I hope he lacks persistence to actually write one.

I mean, having it not help people commit suicide would be a good starting point for AI safety.

I dont agree with the argument that chat gpt should "push back". They have an example in the article where the guy asked for tall bridges to jump from, and chat gpt listed them of course.

but that’s an inherently unhealthy relationship, especially for psychologically vulnerable people. if it doesn’t push back they’re not in a relationship, they’re getting themselves thrown back at them.

ffs, this isn't chatgpt causing psychosis. It's schizo people being attracted like moths to chatgpt because it's very good at conversing in schizo.

I use chatGPT to kind of organize and sift through some of my own thoughts. It’s helpful if you are working on something and need to inject a simple “what if” into the thought process. It’s honestly great and has at times pointed out things I completely overlooked.

But it also has a weird tendency to just agree with everything I saw just to keep engagement up. So even after I’m done, I’m still researching and challenging things anyway because it want me to be its friend. It’s very strange.

It’s a helpful tool but it’s not magical and honestly if it disappeared today I would be fine just going back to the before times.

These are the same people who Google stuff then believe every conspiracy theory website they find telling them the 5G waves mind control the pilots to release the chemtrails to top off the mind control fluoride in the water supplies.

They honestly think the AI is a sentient super intelligence instead of the Google 2 electric gargling boogaloo.

ChatGPT is phenomenal at coming up with ideas to test out. Good critical thinking is necessary though… I’ve actually been able to make a lot of headway with a project that I’ve been working on, because when I get stuck emotionally, I can talk to chatgpt and it gets me through it because it knows how I think and work best. It’s scary how well it knows me… and I’m concerned about propoganda… but it’s everywhere.

Yea totally happening as presented /s

hi, they're going to be in psychosis regardless of what LLMs do. they aren't therapists and mustn't be treated as such. that goes for you too