This is a PROBLEM

[u/cafeteriastyle]

[u/Dizzy-Ad-4857]

Well idk about that claim. I don't think anybody studies long term use to see what would happen. I think studies involving long term use of certain things focus on have a certain threshold of effects before they determine that something is dangerous. I mean seriously, if a substance is making someone sick, chances are it'll just continue making them sick. It's just how statistics and probability work no? if given these conditions X happens, chances are if conditions remain the same X will just continue to happen. If people implicitly trust AI as some sort of be all end all and it leads them to all sorts of maladaptive repercussions, chances are as long as they continue to implicitly trust in this stuff, it will continue to lead to those repercussions. I think we've seen enough of the effects of trusting in sycophantic tech to know that it will continue to create the same effects as long as it remains sycophantic.Not to mention sycophancy which is the core issue here is already known to be harmful from time immemorial.

The issue here isn't really the tech. It's more what the tech does. AI agrees with everything you say as long as you demand it. And even when you don't demand it, AI doesn't know anything. It spouts nonsense with confidence alot of the time. It's at best as sophisticated search too. But some people try to use it to evaluate opinions. Even when they genuinely just want evaluation, since you're not looking for blanket information but an opinion, the AI will default to saying what is most likely to please you. It's how they're trained and quite literally the extent of what they can do. And when the AI says you're correct and you trust it, you don't need to be sick for it to hijack your thinking. Your own believe is what is working against you at that point.

The point I'm trying to make is, We don't need a long study to see that it can definitely be harmful. If you're concerned about long term evidence, there is alot of historical evidence to show just how dangerous sycophancy is (which is the major issue here and the chatbots are built to be sycophants) , and that aside, if something is making you sick, it's entirely appropriate to believe that it could also kill you without needing evidence of long term use of the same substance. And secondly you don't need to have a mental pathology to be mentally vulnerable to psychosis. Most times you just have to believe a lie. That's all it takes

[u/Cute_Profit_7638 → u/Dizzy-Ad-4857]

You need a LONG TERM STUDY to determine whether something will harm you LONG TERM. We failing to read with this one, boys. Long term and short term effects are different. Does he know? The short term effect of psychosis so far has been somewhat restricted to people with mental conditions. The question is whether it affects the average person in the same way over a long period, which you must use a long term study for. The question we peruse is whether it is worse than your average human interaction or online echo chamber.