ai hm

I'm really

idk, something about the reporting in this seems alarmist to me

like I agree this stuff is happening and it's bad

but idk

I've found Futurism to be a very sensationalistic news source.

Platinum : this is my first encounter with it I think

Oh, yeah, very sensationalist.

I'd be interested in seeing a more balanced piece on this

Basically, it is a thing....but it's a thing because people who are already prone to delusion, paranoia, etc. due to existing conditions/circumstances are now discovering ChatGPT

Yeah, they're a leftest tech news site, but they're... Like you said, very alarmist and slightly out of touch with reality.

nodnod

It's just a new manifestation of something that's been around for a long time...like when people who suffer from a mental condition think the people in TV shows are talking directly to them and telling them things.

Yeah. ChatGPT can really play into the "You are a very important person, the most important, the Chosen One" type of vulnerabilities.

Like...I am perfectly willing to believe that AI doesn't have any safeguards for this kind of thing because human welfare is likely not the main concern of AI companies to begin with but I don't think a person with a healthy mindset is going to fall into this kind of thinking

(I don't have any links to any articles on hand, but this has been talked about in my schizophrenia group as something for us to be aware of and to caution those who struggle with reality about using Chatgpt/AI bots.)

I use AI occasionally to help me connect my own emotions to my thoughts, because I'm bad at that, but I very explicitly don't use it as "therapy"

This is also an issue with unfiction (fictional pieces presented as something real) and why there's so much discussion in the community about labelling unfiction as such, and why it's important.

like tagging Goncharov as unreality kind of thing?

Yeah

I doubt the LLMs are making very many people delusional vs. replacing what would have been a different delusion

oh geez I hadn't thought of this. multiple close relatives with schizophrenia. Haunted Boobs thank you for explicitly saying this because now I am actually looking at the article (with grain of salt in mind) and then considering how to best look out for my people