Comment on People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  but when you are rich, its just being extravagant

  only poor people are crazy

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  • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yes, Armie Hammer isn’t a cannibalism, he’s just excentric.

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• Boddhisatva@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s terrifying that the human psyche is so fragile and malleable that an LLM can twist a person around to much that they become a danger to themselves and others. And I have to wonder how many of those billionaires talk to their own AI creations and have become just as delusional as the people in this article, but with the money and power to act on those delusions.

  This also puts MechaHitler in a new light. How many right wingers on X are being deluded into thinking that they are the chosen one who who can save the world by just killing a few Jews, or dems, or POCs or whatever?

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  • Signtist@bookwyr.me ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It took my mom less than 4 years to go from crying in horror when Trump was elected in 2016, to crying in horror when he wasn't elected in 2020, and lamenting her inability to join Jan 6 due to her cancer that was mysteriously worsening in spite of all the 5g blockers and expensive heal-all herbal teas she bought.

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    • Vitaly_Chernobyl@sopuli.xyz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Damn… What happened? Did she just go down the conspiracy theory worm hole?

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      • Signtist@bookwyr.me ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah, she had just broken up with her boyfriend and found a bunch of "self-help" youtube videos that basically just said everyone who disagrees with you is a narcissist, then the algorithm started recommending her videos that said everyone who disagrees with you is actually an "energy vampire" literally and maliciously draining you of your life force. From there she got into all the crazy health conspiracies - which of course happened right as she was diagnosed with DCIS, which is easily treatable, but if left untreated becomes breast cancer. She dove head-first into all of the conspiracies after that, throwing money at anyone claiming to cure cancer so long as the method wasn't backed by "big science," and died of breast cancer a few years later.

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  • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I really wish I had a solid argument against this theory

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    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Fascist rhetoric can be defined as a rhetorical regime that like a light switch is flipped between speaking from an authoritarian position of extreme power to call for violence in a system and speaking from a position of complete helplessness to stop evil being perpetrated by said system.

      It is a specific flavor of self-delusion, one perfectly enabled by a technology like AI to grow out of control like a cancer in a fascists mind.

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      • HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy.

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    • MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s isolated cases that would never be blamed on other technologies.

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  • balder1991@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I just wish I’m long gone before humanity descends into complete chaos.

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• wise_pancake@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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• medem@lemmy.wtf ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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

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