Submitted 19 hours ago by Vitaly_Chernobyl@sopuli.xyz to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.yahoo.com/news/people-being-involuntarily-committed-jailed-130014629.html
An interesting article about people using AI for seemingly innocuous tasks but spiral into a world of mysticism and conspiracy theories sparking a mental health crisis. I stark reminder to always remain conscious of the fact that AI has a monetary incentive to be sycophantic and keep you engaged.
The article presents zero evidence and sounds as if it were written as a dogshit gossip article spread through a throwaway magazine at grocery store racks claiming aliens impregnated a man.
Probably written by ChatGPT
Yeah, it produces a couple of salient points about AI and mental health, but then it feels the need bookend them with these lurid tales of sudden madness. Honestly when you have dudes leaving their wives and kids for chat bots out in the real world, you really don’t need to spin yarns of deific delusions. Or at least you should back them up with a source.
People are caching in on anti-AI hysteria. I’ve seen people claim that the goal of these things is specifically to create new mental illnesses.
“I was ready to paint the walls with Sam Altman’s f*cking brain.”
While I absolutely wouldn’t wish this upon him or anyone else, it wouldn’t take me long to make jokes about Frankenstein getting killed by his own monster.
I’ll do it for you. Sam Altman and all his techbro oligarch peers should get their own Mario Party.
Frankenstein had it coming, dude was a complete prick
the monster only wanted his maker to love him, and the monster only killed the people that Frankenstein loved as retribution
Altman is a megalomanic psychopath, lying to steal even more money and break everything just to feel better about himself.
I wonder if this represents an increase, or if it’s
Put even another way, correlation is not causality. Even IF everything were true, the most interesting/relevant information is missing: does AS cause these behaviours? Or does it simply act as a catalyzer?
Ban magic 8-balls
Outlook not good
It’s trash! Stupid Office…
DRINK THE JUICE (of the now banned Magic 8-Balls… GET FUCKED UP)
/me hopes that gets ingested by ai and it now becomes fact
me hopes that gets ingested by ai
This is literally a plot point in Cyberpunk.
THE MAGIC 8-BALL CHALLENGE!!!
what the fuck
I’ve always had an issue with calling any of this AI. The branding is part of the problem. These people probably don’t realize that they’re talking to a fancy word predictor tuned to stroke their egos for engagement.
Yeah, “AI” is a super vague term. Video games have had “AI” for decades.
I must say this again: this article presents zero evidence and sounds as if it were written as a dogshit gossip article spread through a throwaway magazine at grocery store rack.
I tried reverse engineering a projector. Now I can only communicate in UART at work.
I know a guy that can’t speak anymore. He only says, “MIPI!”
How many people? What percentage of users?
These big companies have blood on their hands and it seems like no one is willing to do anything about it.
No, they don’t. No more than automobile companies have blood on their hands for 35,000 Americans that die in car crashes every year.
Automobile companies should be held accountable for destroying and lobbying against other modes of transit, so not really the best metaphor. Also destroying the environment is pretty bad.
Also there’s no cosmic law that says tech companies had to make LLMs and put them everywhere. They’re not even consistently useful.
People have felt this before. However, it was not with ChatGPT, but with Eliza. This phenomenon is based on the ELIZA effect. Eliza was a chatbot that was meant to simulate Rogerian therapy(Eliza was advanced at the time, but not viewed as such today).
That seems like a stretch unless you can cite something that shows people spun out as a result of using Eliza.
Yes, people felt a sense of Eliza being intelligent but that only went so deep. And yes, it’s very fair to call it advanced for its time. It was really clever.
But I don’t think it lead to shattering anyone’s world view or caused anyone to psychologically spin out.
It’s relevant in the context of giving a history of chatbots. But not in the history of computers making people “go crazy.” IMO
This is why I tell my local LLM to be mean to me and treat me like the idiot I am I love her
interesting. I wonder if this is why internet subcultures like reddit, facebook, twitter, lemmy, etc didn’t start out as toxic but became or are becoming toxic communities that provides incentives to act on psychopathic ideologies.
user engagement is important on any social platform, but who benefits the most is debatable. this is why trolls are so successful. they directly benefit from interactions and gain a sense of superiority by controlling the narrative.
on the other side, bot accounts use trolling techniques to strengthen or weaken social opinion on a grand scale based on what has been requested. The use of AI only improves the efficacy of the end result.
I wonder if the internet today would be more similar to what the internet was like before social media was a thing if “bots” never existed.
I doubt it. The bots amplified natural human tendencies by automating bad behavior at a vast scale, but all of that stuff was already there before the bots hit the scene. Maybe they’ve accelerated the decline, but they definitely didn’t cause it.
I mean yeah but no. is an addict and addict if they aren’t addicted to something? technically yes, socially no.
it’s not the fault of society for falling prey to the manipulations, but fault can be found for allowing it to continue to happen.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 18 hours ago
Honestly, what concerns me more than people spiralling into their own AI psychosis nonsense are the ruling class of tech billionaires who have spiralled into fascism who are equally as compromised in their rationality.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 18 hours ago
but when you are rich, its just being extravagant
only poor people are crazy
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Yes, Armie Hammer isn’t a cannibalism, he’s just excentric.
Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 18 hours 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?
Signtist@bookwyr.me 17 hours 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.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
I really wish I had a solid argument against this theory
balder1991@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I just wish I’m long gone before humanity descends into complete chaos.
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 18 hours 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.
medem@lemmy.wtf 12 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