Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies
Buffalox@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I admit I only read a third of the article.
But IMO nothing in that is special to AI, in my life I’ve met many people with similar symptoms, thinking they are Jesus, or thinking computers work by some mysterious power they posses, but was stolen from them by the CIA. And when they die all computers will stop working!
I’m not a psychiatrist, but from what I gather it’s probably Schizophrenia of some form.
My guess is this person had a distorted view of reality he couldn’t make sense of. He then tried to get help from the AI, and he built a world view completely removed from reality with it.
But most likely he would have done that anyway, it would just have been other things he would interpret in extreme ways. Like news, or conversations, or merely his own thoughts.
MangoCats@feddit.it 4 days ago
Around 2006 I received a job application, with a resume attached, and the resume had a link to the person’s website - so I visited. The website had a link on the front page to “My MkUltra experience”, so I clicked that. Not exactly an in-depth investigation. The MkUltra story read that my job applicant was an unwilling (and un-informed) test subject of MkUltra who picked him from his association with other unwilling MkUltra test subjects at a conference, explained how they expanded the MkUltra program of gaslighting mental torture and secret physical/chemical abuse of their test subjects through associates such as co-workers, etc.
So, option A) applicant is delusional, paranoid, and deeply disturbed. Probably not the best choice for the job.
B) applicant is 100% correct about what is happening to him, DEFINITELY not someone I want to get any closer to professionally, personally, or even be in the same elevator with coincidentally.
C) applicant is pulling our legs with his website, it’s all make-believe fun. Absolutely nothing on applicant’s website indicated that this might be the case.
You know how you apply to jobs and never hear back from some of them…? Yeah, I don’t normally do that to our applicants, but I am willing to make exceptions for cause…
Buffalox@lemmy.world 4 days ago
IDK, apparently the MkUltra program was real,
That sounds harsh.
MangoCats@feddit.it 4 days ago
Oh, I investigated it too - it seems like it was a real thing, though likely inactive by 2005… but if it were active I certainly didn’t want to become a subject.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 4 days ago
OK that risk wasn’t really on my radar, because I live in a country where such things have never been known to happen.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
The Illuminati were real, too. That doesn’t mean that they’re still around and controlling the world, though.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 days ago
But obviously CIA is still around. Plus dozens of other secret US agencies.