Comment on People were mad because they lost their AI boyfriend after GPT-4o deprecation
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 8 months ago
mirror.co.uk/…/meet-woman-whose-boyfriend-rollerc…
Some people have always been extremely weird/mentally challenged. 🤷
I dunno, I think there might be a confluence in suggestible types with a feedback loop created by these products. Yes, there are always people who are challenged, but interfacing them with LLMs seems to be especially dangerous.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10686326/
futurism.com/openai-investor-chatgpt-mental-healt…
psychologytoday.com/…/can-ai-chatbots-worsen-psyc…
rollingstone.com/…/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroy…
That’s the scariest thing about this all to me. I’m middle-aged and happily married, but my own youth was a long battle with various mental heath struggles, social isolation, abuse, extreme loneliness, and having to figure out so much of my life without enough help. I have no doubt that if this bullshit were available to me back then I’d have been very susceptible to it carrying me off into far deeper unhealthy mental states and worse decisions than the ones I ended up with. I had my own poor decisions, hard lessons, and all-around awful shit to wade through, but ultimately I was able to learn, work, grow, and find myself somewhere better.
I have a very good life now, with a real human partner, family, friends, and others who appreciate my existence as I appreciate theirs. I’m not rich or famous or whatever, but I’m constantly grateful to be doing as well as I am. It absolutely fucking devastates me how much more difficult finding one’s way to a more positive future is now for kids who are dealing with anything like I was back then, with uncaring capitalist asshole-fueled bullshit like this getting in the way.
yeah I really worry about the long term impacts this can have on kids that start out lonely then get fed this garbage.
archive.is/Tv4Rr - this poor guy was convinced he had invented a whole new kind of math.
futurism.com/chatgpt-psychosis-antichrist-aliens
I wonder if we’re going to see class actions for mental distress caused by these shitbots
That first one hurt to read. I’ve seen similar things happen because of mentally unwell manipulators targeting people before.
At least before it was much more difficult to turn them into cash-cows.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Sure but normally they’re confined to 4chan
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Lol, they’re just poorly socialized and on the spectrum.