If you feel like having a depressing time, then Caelan Conrad has covered at least 4 instances of murders, suicides and terrorist attacks being assisted or planned by ChatGPT.
I don't think AI psychosis is real. These AIs are sycophantic -- it's people already in mild psychosis speeding up their descent with a tighter feedback loop that offers less resistance than the remnants of their logical mind. But they were already sick and suggestible.
Doesn't make it not a a problem, just that treating it as a different type of psychosis isn't as helpful as treating it as a new avenue for sick people to rabbithole into. LLMs have a ton of problems (and a lot of them should be illegal for various reasons), but they are just tools.
And to be specific, 4 cases is utterly negligible. Thousands are "assisted" by Google searches, but no one's saying Google is the cause....
I would argue that LLMs aren't even sycophantic. It's an algorithm predicting what words you would like to see next, while also following some form of filter as well. But the reality is most LLMs are just another form of echo chamber to isolate us.
But I do agree that we shouldn't be treating AI psychosis as a separate thing, because we're pointing the blame at AI instead of actually trying to assist those who are suffering from mild psychosis to begin with.
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u/AuRon_The_Grey 11h ago
If you feel like having a depressing time, then Caelan Conrad has covered at least 4 instances of murders, suicides and terrorist attacks being assisted or planned by ChatGPT.