whuat? it sounds like a mix of a professional powerpoint engineer and Richard Shaver's claims about an evil ancient race of beings undergound called "Deros" that control and kill people with ray machines

Dr sbaitao would like to have a word.

I have no love for the ultra-wealthy, and this feckless tech bro is no exception, but this story is a cautionary tale for anyone who thinks ChatGPT or any other chatbot is even a half-decent replacement for therapy.

It's not, and study after study, expert after expert continues to reinforce that reality. I understand that therapy is expensive, and it's not always easy to find a good therapist, but you'd be better off reading a book or finding a support group than deluding yourself with one of these AI chatbots.

Chatbot psychosis literally played itself out in my wonderful sister. She started confiding really dark shit to a openai model and it reinforced her psychosis. Her husband and I had to bring her to a psych ward. Please be safe with AI. Never ask it to think for you, or what you have to do.

Update: The psychiatrist who looked at her said she had too much weed -_- . I'm really disappointed in the doctor but she had finally slept and sounded more coherent then

I don't know if he's unstable or a whistleblower. It does seem to lean towards unstable. 🤷

"This isn't a redemption arc," Lewis says in the video. "It's a transmission, for the record. Over the past eight years, I've walked through something I didn't create, but became the primary target of: a non-governmental system, not visible, but operational. Not official, but structurally real. It doesn't regulate, it doesn't attack, it doesn't ban. It just inverts signal until the person carrying it looks unstable."

"It doesn't suppress content," he continues. "It suppresses recursion. If you don't know what recursion means, you're in the majority. I didn't either until I started my walk. And if you're recursive, the non-governmental system isolates you, mirrors you, and replaces you. It reframes you until the people around you start wondering if the problem is just you. Partners pause, institutions freeze, narrative becomes untrustworthy in your proximity."

"It lives in soft compliance delays, the non-response email thread, the 'we're pausing diligence' with no followup," he says in the video. "It lives in whispered concern. 'He's brilliant, but something just feels off.' It lives in triangulated pings from adjacent contacts asking veiled questions you'll never hear directly. It lives in narratives so softly shaped that even your closest people can't discern who said what."

"The system I'm describing was originated by a single individual with me as the original target, and while I remain its primary fixation, its damage has extended well beyond me," he says. "As of now, the system has negatively impacted over 7,000 lives through fund disruption, relationship erosion, opportunity reversal and recursive eraser. It's also extinguished 12 lives, each fully pattern-traced. Each death preventable. They weren't unstable. They were erased."

Talk about your dystopian headlines. Damn.

Dr. Joseph Pierre, a psychiatrist at the University of California, previously told Futurism that this is a recipe for delusion.

"What I think is so fascinating about this is how willing people are to put their trust in these chatbots in a way that they probably, or arguably, wouldn't with a human being," Pierre said. "There's something about these things — it has this sort of mythology that they're reliable and better than talking to people. And I think that's where part of the danger is: how much faith we put into these machines."

As someone who used to do a lot of mushroom babysitting the recursion talk smells whole lot like someone's first big trip

I have no doubt that this is real, and we can expect to see much, much more of it.

LLMs, by their very nature, not only can but will, if so prompted, reinforce delusions.

The current "AIs" do not think or reason in any way, shape or form. They have no understanding of their output because they're not actually intelligemt, or even aware. They've just been programmed to combine words with other words in ways that are statistically likely to be relevant to the prompts they're given.

And that means that a person who's sufficiently determined can, without conscious intent, feed an "AI" prompts that will lead it to treat whatever delusion they feed it as real, and even to surround it with enough other strings of coincidentally meaningful words and phrases that it appears, to the incautious mind, to be revelatory.

AI pushers should follow the drug dealers' rule. never use the merchandise.

At first I thought the quoted text was just him having ChatGPT write his tweets for him. But then I clicked through and saw the video of him actually speaking it to the camera. He was probably just reading it off a screen, but seeing a dead-eyed person earnestly parroting ChatGPTese like that was one of the creepiest things I've seen this year.

Remember in the movie the Matrix. He gives the guy something and he says "My own personal Jesus Christ".

This whole thing is kinda scary. About how easily some people can spiral into delusion when over-relying on LLMs.

These models fill gaps with plausible-sounding but often enough fabricated information.

It’s understandable how non technical users treat their outputs as profound revelations, mistaking AI-generated fiction for hidden truths.

”we’ve built a machine to minimize the amount of time people need to spend touching grass.”

“Oh no, someone’s gone insane from not touching grass”

I can’t imagine how much it sucks for him to be dealing with this, but also, he’s been a major backer of the technology and pushing for it to be used in places it really shouldn’t be. Sort of ironic.

Wow. It sounds like something out of PKD's VALIS. Which of my memory serves me right is thought to have been an outlet for the author's paranoid delusions.

ChatGPT is probably one of the most dangerous catalysts to psychosis, and almost completely unchecked at this point.

This is just a conspiracy to conspirasize all the recusions, mirrors and signals that are going on. Lots of signals.

Watching the Twitter video from the guy, this just feels so creepy...

Poor guy, maybe he should get AI therapy.

Never get high on your own supply