People like this surely already have issues, but AI seems to make it much worse. Also, I think this affects many of us in a similar but milder way. I would lie if I said chatgpt has never made me feel like a genius.
If everyone in my area who has AI psychosis needed to be helped, they’d need to re-purpose the latest data center being built as a mental health facility.
I’m at the point I’m just like Carlin- at least I get a front row seat for it.
If everyone in my area who has AI psychosis needed to be helped, they’d need to re-purpose the latest data center being built as a mental health facility.
“…thats why in these difficult times, I use today’s sponsor, Betterhe*lth.c0m.” /s
To be clear: these are people who were already on the edge of sanity before. People be cray.
It helps to read the article.
In one of the cases mentioned, the user had no previous indication of a mental health disorder.
The article does not say, or imply that. In fact, it goes out of it’s way to say that mental health professionals don’t have a good understanding of this phenomena. Do you have a source Senator Armstrong?
It talks mostly about one person who was dealing with PTSD before using it and an other who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder afterwards.
I’m guessing AI has some kind of amplifying effect but it’s not taking sane people and making them crazy. It’s more akin to lsd being a trigger for schizophrenics from what I understand.
It’s elementary that people who are susceptible to this kind of thing must necessarily be prone to things like magical thinking, accepting things as true without sufficient evidence, addictive personality.
You just don’t go from being a rational, well-balanced person to having paranormal grandiose delusions with a chat bot. There’s something else going on.
Of course psychosis has a trigger, this just happened to be it. That’s like psychology 101.
People prone to psychosis are rational, balanced people, sometimes for their entire lives, or until something triggers a psychotic break. You really ought to look up psychosis and schizophrenia, it’s a lot more nuanced than elementary. We have research on those things so you don’t have to try to reason it out.
This. Some people just a prone to psychosis. Can be a family trait or random. This is known about schizophrenia too. Can be triggered by a lot of different things, including drugs. AI stuff just added itself to the list of possible triggers for those people.
Is it okay to push people into full-blown insanity?
It’s not like this was the only thing that would have done it. If not this, then something else was right around the corner.
It also could have gotten them help too.
There’s a very recent 2 episode series on Behind the Bastards precisely on this. Highly recommend to give it a listen!
