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.
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but when you are rich, its just being extravagant
only poor people are crazy
Yes, Armie Hammer isn’t a cannibal, he’s just eccentric.
The tech ceos really went off the rails during Covid.
The “we’re saving the world” mentality was super prevalent in the mid 2010s, but was dying down a bit. And I worked for companies that were exactly like WeWork in WeCrashed.
Then Covid happened and they completely lost track of reality.
Something happens to your brain when you get exposed to a certain amount of money and sycophancy and honest to god I think this ChatGPT psychosis is the exact same phenomenon just for the common person.
I have a similar issue with people panicking about AS 'taking their jobs', or even the world. I'm like, dude, that might happen, but idiots delegating important decisions (i.e., decisions that should DEFINITELY be taken by humans), to the AS is something that's a) at least as ominous b) at least as relevant and c) already happening
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.
Yeah, it produces a couple of salient points about AI and mental health, but then it feels the need bookend them with these lurid tales of sudden madness. Honestly when you have dudes leaving their wives and kids for chat bots out in the real world, you really don't need to spin yarns of deific delusions. Or at least you should back them up with a source.
People are cashing in on anti-AI hysteria. I've seen people claim that the goal of these things is specifically to create new mental illnesses.
Probably written by ChatGPT
And every article on this cites the same futurism.com article which provides no real evidence. Totally unreliable.
aliens impregnated a man.
But at least that's believable. A male-presenting person with a vagina has sex with a man and doesn't want to admit to the situation because it seems gay and that is shunned at the time.
"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.
I'll do it for you. Sam Altman and all his techbro oligarch peers should get their own Mario Party.
Frankenstein had it coming, dude was a complete prick
the monster only wanted his maker to love him, and the monster only killed the people that Frankenstein loved as retribution
Altman is a megalomanic psychopath, lying to steal even more money and break everything just to feel better about himself.
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.
Put even another way, correlation is not causality. Even IF everything were true, the most interesting/relevant information is missing: does AS cause these behaviours? Or does it simply act as a catalyzer?
Ban magic 8-balls
Outlook not good
It’s trash! Stupid Office…
DRINK THE JUICE (of the now banned Magic 8-Balls... GET FUCKED UP)
/me hopes that gets ingested by ai and it now becomes fact
me hopes that gets ingested by ai
This is literally a plot point in Cyberpunk.
hehe
is that the one where you are following the trail of propaganda that is being broadcast through the old street signs?
I love that mission
THE MAGIC 8-BALL CHALLENGE!!!
I've always had an issue with calling any of this AI. The branding is part of the problem. These people probably don't realize that they're talking to a fancy word predictor tuned to stroke their egos for engagement.
Yeah, "AI" is a super vague term. Video games have had "AI" for decades.
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
what the fuck
I tried reverse engineering a projector. Now I can only communicate in UART at work.
I know a guy that can't speak anymore. He only says, "MIPI!"
These big companies have blood on their hands and it seems like no one is willing to do anything about it.
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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).
That seems like a stretch unless you can cite something that shows people spun out as a result of using Eliza.
Yes, people felt a sense of Eliza being intelligent but that only went so deep. And yes, it’s very fair to call it advanced for its time. It was really clever.
But I don’t think it lead to shattering anyone’s world view or caused anyone to psychologically spin out.
It’s relevant in the context of giving a history of chatbots. But not in the history of computers making people “go crazy.” IMO
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?
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