For those who think this is "just" a fad, there are some descriptions of the emotional harm that that it can cause in this article from February: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/social-med... The semantics of "mass sociogenic illness" aside, there do seem to be damaging real-world consequences.
It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic illness
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#22It almost feels like gpt created literature when you start to read it, seemingly linking unrelated issues and concepts. But later in I became convinced it’s real and very interesting. Very meme-like, in the original definition of meme that is. A “virus” of the mind.
The last sentence of the abstract felt especially unnatural: > since spread via social media is no longer restricted to specific locations such as local communities or school environments spread via social media is no longer restricted to specific locations such as schools or towns.
Yes, I too got to that sentence and thought "Are we being pranked by a GPT-written academic article?"
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#23It almost feels like gpt created literature when you start to read it, seemingly linking unrelated issues and concepts. But later in I became convinced it’s real and very interesting. Very meme-like, in the original definition of meme that is. A “virus” of the mind.
The last sentence of the abstract felt especially unnatural: > since spread via social media is no longer restricted to specific locations such as local communities or school environments spread via social media is no longer restricted to specific locations such as schools or towns.
As someone in academia, that reads just like a sentence that wasn't peer reviewed by a native English speaker.
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#24I've read this before on HN, even some comments. Getting a weird deja-vu vibe.
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#25Imagine you start the same trend, but everyone tries for once to contribute something science wise original to society, so the problem is real, but the potential is greater. Now comes the part, were advertisers try to create sociogenic illnesses that spread theire product/brands information. We can also skip directly to the part, were we mourn the youtfull ideals of a idea, taken over by scammers.
Link this with the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and receive prescribed brand candy/placebos for saying “Arr!” too much. Also prosthetics or an assistance bird.
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#26I don't think this is the only mass sociogenic illness affecting young girls currently....
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#27Wow. So now that I know that mass sociogenic illness is a thing, where do I draw the line in applying that label?
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#28Somewhere I already read about that. It's a fad. A youtuber shows Tourette's symptoms and people copy them. Perhaps it's like stimming. And you can't stop fads and stimming. We see that some people are annoyed. (shrugs)
But when a fad becomes destructive to someone's life to the point where they can't voluntarily stop it and seek professional treatment for it, it becomes an illness and is worth investigating.
> (shrugs)
Those affected by it don't seem to be able to shrug it off. It's having a negative effect on their quality of life
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#29I don't think this is the only mass sociogenic illness affecting young girls currently....
Care to elaborate? As written, your comment can come off as rather ageist/sexist, which is a shame if you meant a specific trend.
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#30It almost feels like gpt created literature when you start to read it, seemingly linking unrelated issues and concepts. But later in I became convinced it’s real and very interesting. Very meme-like, in the original definition of meme that is. A “virus” of the mind.
The last sentence of the abstract felt especially unnatural: > since spread via social media is no longer restricted to specific locations such as local communities or school environments spread via social media is no longer restricted to specific locations such as schools or towns.
It's just missing a comma.