Submitted 22 hours ago by 1984@lemmy.today to technology@lemmy.world
https://futurism.com/commitment-jail-chatgpt-psychosis
Who are these people? This is ridiculous. :)
I guess with so many humans, there is bound to be a small number of people who have no ability to think for themselves and believe everything a chat bot is writing in their web browser.
People even have romantic relationships with these things.
I know a guy who has all kinds of theories about sentient life in the universe, but noone to talk to about them. It’s because they’re pretty obvious to anyone who took a philosophy class, and too out there for people who are not interestes in such discussions. I tried to be a conversation partner for him but it always ends up with awkward silence on my part and a monologue on his side at some point.
So, he finally found a sentient being who always knows what to answer in the form of ChatGPT and now they develop his ideas together. I don’t think it’s bad for him overall, but the last report I got from his conversations with the superbeing was that it told him to write a book about it because he’s full of innovative ideas. I hope he lacks persistence to actually write one.
hi, they’re going to be in psychosis regardless of what LLMs do. they aren’t therapists and mustn’t be treated as such. that goes for you too
I dont agree with the argument that chat gpt should “push back”.
Me neither, but if they are being presented as “artificial people to chat with” they must.
I’d rather LLMs stay tools, not pretend people.
Are we expecting the llm to act like a psychologist, evaluating if the users state of mind is healthy before answering questions?
Some of the LLMs referred to are advertised as AI psychological help, so they must either act like psychologists (which they can’t) or stop being allowed as digital therapists.
ChatGPT is phenomenal at coming up with ideas to test out. Good critical thinking is necessary though… I’ve actually been able to make a lot of headway with a project that I’ve been working on, because when I get stuck emotionally, I can talk to chatgpt and it gets me through it because it knows how I think and work best. It’s scary how well it knows me… and I’m concerned about propoganda… but it’s everywhere.
I mean, having it not help people commit suicide would be a good starting point for AI safety.
It will take another five seconds to find the same info using the web. Unless you also think we should censor the entire web and make it illegal to have any information about things that can hurt people, like knives, guns, stress, partners, cars…
This is also a problem for search engines.
A problem that while not solved has been somewhat mitigated by including suicide prevention resources at the top of search results.
This is a bare minimum AI can’t meet, and in conversation with AI vulnerable people can get more than just information, there are confirmed cases of the AI encouraging harmful behaviors up to and including suicide.
It will take another five seconds to find the same info using the web.
good. every additional hurdle between a suicidal person and the actual act saves lives.
I dont agree with the argument that chat gpt should “push back”. They have an example in the article where the guy asked for tall bridges to jump from, and chat gpt listed them of course.
but that’s an inherently unhealthy relationship, especially for psychologically vulnerable people. if it doesn’t push back they’re not in a relationship, they’re getting themselves thrown back at them.
Counterpoint: it is NOT an unhealthy relationship. A relationship has more than one person in it. It might be considered an unhealthy behavior.
I don’t think the problem is solvable if we keep treating the Speak’n’spell like it’s participating in this.
Corporations are putting dangerous tools in the hands of vulnerable people. By pretending the tool is a person, we’re already playing their shell game.
But yes, the tool seems primed for enabling self-harm.
Like with every other thing there is: if you don’t know how it basically works or what it even is, you maybe should not really use it. And especially not voice an opinion about it. Furthermore, every tool can be used for self-harm if used incorrectly. You shouldn’t put a screwdriver in your eyes. Just knowing what a plane does won’t make you an able pilot and will likely result in dire harm too.
Not directed at you personally though.
I use chatGPT to kind of organize and sift through some of my own thoughts. It’s helpful if you are working on something and need to inject a simple “what if” into the thought process. It’s honestly great and has at times pointed out things I completely overlooked.
But it also has a weird tendency to just agree with everything I saw just to keep engagement up. So even after I’m done, I’m still researching and challenging things anyway because it want me to be its friend. It’s very strange.
It’s a helpful tool but it’s not magical and honestly if it disappeared today I would be fine just going back to the before times.
These are the same people who Google stuff then believe every conspiracy theory website they find telling them the 5G waves mind control the pilots to release the chemtrails to top off the mind control fluoride in the water supplies.
They honestly think the AI is a sentient super intelligence instead of the Google 2 electric gargling boogaloo.
being a sucker isn’t the same as being in psychosis
Yea totally happening.
chunes@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
ffs, this isn’t chatgpt causing psychosis. It’s schizo people being attracted like moths to chatgpt because it’s very good at conversing in schizo.
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
indeed, though I could do without using disparaging language for one of the most vulnerable populations in the medical world…
anachrohack@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
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