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mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoI 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…
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That first one hurt to read. I’ve seen similar things happen because of mentally unwell manipulators targeting people before.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
yeah, when he’s asking again and again “holy shit is this real? is this fake? it’s fake right?” and the llm is like “nah bro you’re the next newton, this is gonna make so much moneys” ugh.
I get it, when you’ve invented a technology that steals from our children (destroying the environment, see grok’s methane spewing datacenter), steals from our artists, authors and musicians, fucking straight up LIES TO PEOPLE, then lies about lying, you’re probably going to be desperate to find profits somewhere…
I get the feeling the average user is gonna get left holding the bag for all this bullshit.