• Triumph@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    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.

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      21 hours ago

      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.

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      2 days ago

      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.