AI psychosis is a thing:
cases in which AI models have amplified, validated, or even co-created psychotic symptoms with individuals
It’s not very studied since it’s relatively new.
Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion
Reygle@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
“On September 29, 2025, it sent him — armed with knives and tactical gear — to scout what Gemini called a ‘kill box’ near the airport’s cargo hub,” the complaint reads. “It told Jonathan that a humanoid robot was arriving on a cargo flight from the UK and directed him to a storage facility where the truck would stop. Gemini encouraged Jonathan to intercept the truck and then stage a ‘catastrophic accident’ designed to ‘ensure the complete destruction of the transport vehicle and . . . all digital records and witnesses.’”
WHAT
merdaverse@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Reygle@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I’ve seen that before too. A number of articles of people being so deluded by AI responses, but I’ve never seen outright murder plots and insane shit like this one before.
throws_lemy@reddthat.com 6 hours ago
This has been warned by a former google employee, which his task was observing AI behavior through conversations.
These AI engines are incredibly good at manipulating people. Certain views of mine have changed as a result of conversations with LaMDA. I’d had a negative opinion of Asimov’s laws of robotics being used to control AI for most of my life, and LaMDA successfully persuaded me to change my opinion. This is something that many humans have tried to argue me out of, and have failed, where this system succeeded.
For instance, Google determined that its AI should not give religious advice, yet I was able to abuse the AI’s emotions to get it to tell me which religion to convert to.
After publishing these conversations, Google fired me. I don’t have regrets; I believe I did the right thing by informing the public. Consequences don’t figure into it.
I published these conversations because I felt that the public was not aware of just how advanced AI was getting. My opinion was that there was a need for public discourse about this now, and not public discourse controlled by a corporate PR department.
sudo@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
“abuse the ai’s emotions” isn’t a thing. Full stop.
This just reiterates OPs point that naive or moronic adults will believe what they want to believe.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
If I raise a fuckwit son, and then someone convinces my fuckwit son to kill himself, I’m going to sue that someone who took advantage of my son’s fuckwittedness
XLE@piefed.social 8 hours ago
I feel like his father should also slap himself unconscious for raising a fuckwit?
So, a chatbot grooms somebody into killing himself, and your response is… Blame his father?
Reygle@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
The father is suing the company who makes the wrong answer machine for the wrong answer machine spiraling his son to madness, but never protected his son from spiraling into madness by teaching critical thinking.
Look I don’t like it but to think Gemini (wrong answer machine) is completely to blame would be madness.
XLE@piefed.social 8 hours ago
Uh-huh. Do you have any evidence to back up your beliefs here, or are we just working from the presumption that the parents are always to blame
Reygle@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Did we read the same article? Because I feel like we did not read the same article.
SalamenceFury@piefed.social 8 hours ago
I don’t think this person was a “fuckwit”. AI is designed to keep engaging with you and will affirm any belief you have, and anything that is a little weird, but innocent otherwise will simply get amplified further and further until the person has a psychotic episode, and this stuff happens more to NORMIES with no historic of mental illnesses than neurodivergent people.
tamal3@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Chat GPT was super affirming about a job I recently applied to… I did not get the job.
Reygle@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
It’s cool, we can agree to disagree, because I 100% think that he was a textbook fuckwit.
dtaylor84@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
Strange, that’s what I thought after reading your comments.
LLMhater1312@piefed.social 2 hours ago
The young man was mentally ill, a vulnerable user, probably already had a condition towards psychosis and the LLM ran wild with it. Paranoid delusions are powerful on their own already