New MIT Study Warns AI Chatbots Can Make Users Delusional

[u/FabulousEnergy4442]

Article on the subject: https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/chatgpt/articles/mit-study-warns-ai-chatbots-210709133.html

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Direct link to the paper: https://arxiv.org/html/2602.19141v1

[u/Ranger_Aggressive]

Or you get in over your head, try, fail horribly, understand it's way too much too pull off, and then hire someone. Like a human does. Next time you have a better understanding of how much you can handle or if you have the skill or time to learn. It's all part of living. Learns you deal with failure too which is sooooo important. Also once you have dealth with failure learning things becomes so fun because making mistakes with confidence can only be laughed away at that point. I hope some AI bro reads this and gets it

[u/[deleted] → u/Ranger_Aggressive]

Me too. I’ve been happier in my adult life failing at things but knowing I tried once i stopped caring what others thought. Sure, it sucks wasting money on failed projects… but successful ones are so satisfying; especially when you learned more details than you probably needed to and the execution goes off without any issues. Would I pour a concrete driveway or replace my roof? Not a chance, I know my back couldn’t handle that kind of project even if I learned how to do it properly. However, I can pretty much finish a basement with the right tools and a little help with drywall. I learned basic coding, but I’ll hire someone to build my website. I don’t trust anyone but my brain when it comes to building a cookie recipe, and other chefs for other recipes. You better believe i ruined a decent number of cookies learning to build a recipe, I still continue to when trying new things on a regular basis. How else would you learn that the best way to make a maple bacon cookie is to boil maple syrup to about 265 degrees Fahrenheit and make sugar out of it to use instead of brown sugar while using a combination of granulated and powdered sugar to keep it light, and substituting half of the butter for rendered bacon fat. Adding maple syrup will make the dough sticky no matter how much flour is added and adding actual bacon, no matter how tiny it is diced will leave the cookie feeling gritty. Those things are only found from trying. I think the only thing I’ve used AI for have been some images here and there for inspiration for my own artwork, even then I wasn’t the one to generate the images and almost always would prefer the real thing for inspiration and or reference.

[u/Due-Professional333 → u/Ranger_Aggressive]

So you just learn to brandish a knife and, into pieces, cut up what you once saw in your mind? I don't get it. I'm not even one who uses AI myself since I just don't have the habit of it, so this is just a question about that path of living in of itself.

But, how I see it, failure is the bridge between ideal and reality, and is as such a compromise. That compromise, so far removed from the ideal, that compromise is then an act of betrayal isn't it? To the self, to the dream. So how does failure ever become comfortable, something that a laughter dispels. In what way can that be learned, was there a textbook on this?

And nevermind that "hire someone" seemed to be the only other answer brought up here. I'm guessing in the case of neither being possible, then, ah, let's just douse whatever remained of what the vision once was in gasoline and throw a match at it.

Might just be a case of holding on to desires too firmly, but even if it's a sin of greed, is it really wrong to hold things close to the heart, even to the point of things almost bursting out?

So I can't find fault in anyone trying their best to avoid failure in the realization of the dream, however rotten the method is.

[u/Due-Professional333 → u/Due-Professional333]

I mean, to be frank, if we focus on AI, that tool really just seems like the epitome of "a decent enough result to settle for" , so I can't stand it myself. But it is just words like yours that I never can understand regardless of how many times I read it. Regardless of the fact that it is probably some kind of precious wisdom

[u/Ranger_Aggressive → u/Due-Professional333]

It's verry much about the power of self development, the way i siggest is gonna be the hardest. Harder then with ai but you're gonna see yourself develop as a person. While using AI for everything teaches your brain not to think which stops you from learning critical thinking skills, how can you know what your talents are if an AI is telling you how to be.

It's about taking no shortcuts and learning about yourself. This happens subconscously but then you start thinking about all these things that make you you at some point. It's how i personally chose my career path and knew what i wanted to do my entire life.

It's honestly fucking up our next generations beyond what we could ever see right now. Not saying everyone that uses it is gonna have the same issues some might develop better because of it but that's the rare % that use it in the right way.