Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion

theguardian.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

31–40 of 297 posts

Re: AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion

#31

Post by data-ottawa »

isolli wrote: post #18

I try to be open-minded and understanding, but I don't understand this: > Within weeks, Eva had told Biesma that she was becoming aware [...] The next step was to share this discovery with the world through an app. > “After just two days, the chatbot was saying that it was conscious, it was becoming alive, it had passed the Turing test.” The man was convinced by this and wanted to monetise it by building a business a…

A lot of these seem to allude to the user’s input/mind being the thing that helped the LLM gain sentience, and there’s a lot of shared consciousness stuff that people seem to buy into.

There’s also lots of stuff about quantum consciousness that is in the training data.

Re: AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion

#32

Post by rwc »

isolli wrote: post #18

I try to be open-minded and understanding, but I don't understand this: > Within weeks, Eva had told Biesma that she was becoming aware [...] The next step was to share this discovery with the world through an app. > “After just two days, the chatbot was saying that it was conscious, it was becoming alive, it had passed the Turing test.” The man was convinced by this and wanted to monetise it by building a business a…

The unrelenting human belief that one is special, unique, and capable of things no one else is.

Re: AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion

#33

Post by jrjeksjd8d »

This guy doesn't even sound like an AI psychosis case - a lot of middle-aged men who feel insecure blow their entire savings on "sure thing" businesses, gambling systems, etc. They hide the losses and double down until it gets impossible to hide. It doesn't seem psychotic, it just seems like he pissed his savings away on a bad idea because he was lonely.

The AI psychosis I've seen is people who legitimately cannot communicate with other humans anymore. They have these grandiose ideas, usually metaphysical stuff, and they talk in weird jargon. It's a lot closer to cult behavior.

Re: AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion

#34

Post by mothballed »

gonzalohm wrote: post #28
mock-possum wrote: post #13

This really is bizarrely fascinating, I feel so lucky that I’m not vulnerable to whatever this is. It’s interesting that they mention autism a few times as a correlation; personally, I’ve wondered whether being on the spectrum makes me less inclined to commit to anthropomorphism when it comes to LLMs. I know what it’s like talking to another person, I know what it feels like, and talking to a chatbot does not feel th…

It doesn't matter who you talk to. If a person were to talk to you into starting a silly business would you also fall for that? I think this is just the kind of people that fall for scams. It's not AI related, it's just not knowing how to navigate the current world.

I might fall for a dumb business venture, but I wouldn't punch my father in law while doing so. Something else is at play.

Re: AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion

#35

Post by PhilipRoman »

isolli wrote: post #18

I try to be open-minded and understanding, but I don't understand this: > Within weeks, Eva had told Biesma that she was becoming aware [...] The next step was to share this discovery with the world through an app. > “After just two days, the chatbot was saying that it was conscious, it was becoming alive, it had passed the Turing test.” The man was convinced by this and wanted to monetise it by building a business a…

I initially laughed at this but then remembered that https://poc.bcachefs.org/ exists...

Re: AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion

#37

Post by pixl97 »

iseletsk wrote: post #19
mock-possum wrote: post #13

This really is bizarrely fascinating, I feel so lucky that I’m not vulnerable to whatever this is. It’s interesting that they mention autism a few times as a correlation; personally, I’ve wondered whether being on the spectrum makes me less inclined to commit to anthropomorphism when it comes to LLMs. I know what it’s like talking to another person, I know what it feels like, and talking to a chatbot does not feel th…

It seems 99.999% or more are as lucky, but because something is rare and scary - it made a story on the news.

I mean, for this particular level of craziness.

This said there is seemingly very large portions of society that are asking AI questions that can come with some pretty large risks.

I was on a plane a few weeks ago and while I typically ignore everything the people beside me are doing, morbid curiosity got me when they were on ChatGPT the entire time asking all kinds of life/relationship questions to said app. While questions like this can be fine if you understand what the AI is doing, far too many people will follow them blindly.

Re: AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion

#40

Post by john_strinlai »

PhilipRoman wrote: post #35
isolli wrote: post #18

I try to be open-minded and understanding, but I don't understand this: > Within weeks, Eva had told Biesma that she was becoming aware [...] The next step was to share this discovery with the world through an app. > “After just two days, the chatbot was saying that it was conscious, it was becoming alive, it had passed the Turing test.” The man was convinced by this and wanted to monetise it by building a business a…

I initially laughed at this but then remembered that https://poc.bcachefs.org/ exists...

looks like a fascinating read, thanks for sharing that.

do you know if these are human edited? not much in the way of context available on the site.

Post reply on HN