Comment on People were mad because they lost their AI boyfriend after GPT-4o deprecation

aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As preceeded by tulpomancy: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulpa

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  • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Eyyy, what a blast from the past, lol. Going full schizo to combat loneliness, a popular concept on a certain Mongolian basket weaving forum back in 2010-15. 😅

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  • LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m split on which is worse tbh.
    The Tulpa thing takes more effort than just talking to an AI, but on the other hand, it’s has to be much harder to snap back to reality when the voices are literally in your head…

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• TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Delusional disorder is a thing but that requires belief flying in the face of evidence. Can’t ascertain that without a good faith 1:1 convo.

  beyond that it’s a matter of what harm comes from it

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