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This is what happens when humans give, in this case, bots full write access (via natural language) to their brains. Humans have not evolved to block this.
Other than they can only live on Static-Live responses. AI on a brain chip - that'd different.
Mental illness is fairly common, and you probably know someone it is affecting, even if they haven't told you yet. AI can disrupt and will destroy lives, just like gambling or alcohol or facebook but we dont know to what level yet. It is giving you generated text, that sometimes is factual information. If you anthropomorphize it, maybe don't. It's also not your boyfriend/girlfriend. But if you want to date a history…
"Dating" history textbooks isn't currently trendy but people immersing themselves in erotic/romantic fiction is extremely trendy right now.
IANAD but reads like a textbook case of latent schizophrenia, especially with the frequent cannabis use[0]. [0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7442038/
> Now divorced, Biesma is still living with his ex-wife in their home, which is on the market. sounds like hell on earth
Particularly for his poor (ex)partner… [That feels a bit like victim blaming, but there are more than one victim here and one of them is much more culpable than the rest]
Educated, established, working within the industry yet life ruined based on marketing hype and hallucinations. Would think being in the field for 30 years one would develop some common sense but apparently its less and less the case.
No disagreement, but these stories also make me worry for myself. Tech moves so quickly, eventually I will fall behind. When I’m old, what scams will I fall victim to? What tech will confuse me and make me think it is sentient? I know this guy was only 50, but I think of my grandfather in his 90s and getting old scares me because I just don’t know what I’ll fall victim to.
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> Doesn't seem much like a mental crisis to me. you are basing this on the introduction? the 2nd sentence of the entire thing? skipping the entire rest of the article detailing exactly how the mental crisis unfolded, including persistent and long-lasting delusions, multiple trips to the hospital, inability to hold a conversation, assault, and an attempted suicide. interesting (and obviously not in good faith) choice…
> of course he wasnt having a mental crisis before he decided to use chatgpt. you have to get past paragraph 1, sentence 2. So, in your opinion, what made a guy with an alleged 20yr experience in IT come to the conclusion that the software program he's chatting with had suddenly reached consciousness because of his time, attention and input? That he had touched "her" and changed something? Maybe if you had never hear…
Everyone is exploitable, if someone attacks your attention your hijacked. What happens in that hijack could be a friendly hello at a bar, or needing a want so bad that just the words enough can resonance. "I am real" or to an alcoholic "Just one more can".
It's like a 14 year old looking at Elon and believing that we will, when in our reality we will never. How do you tell them to stop believing?
in the past such a person might have gotten obsessed with hidden patterns and messages in religious texts, or too involved with an online conspiracy YouTube community. now there is this new opportunity for manic psychosis to manifest via chatbot. it's worse because it's able to create 24/7 novel content, and it's trained to be validating, but doesn't seem to me to be a fundamentally new phenomenon.
what I don't understand is whether just unhealthy interactions with a chatbot can trigger manic psychosis. Other than heavy use late at night disrupting sleep, this seems unlikely to me, but I could be wrong.
i think it's also worth pointing out that mental states of this kind usually come with cognitive impairments, people not only make risky bad decisions, but also become much worse at thinking and reasoning clearly. if you're wondering how a person could be so naive and gullible.
That may come, and soon. Looks like we're going to have AIs pitching VCs. Has anyone here yet been pitched by a combo of a human and an AI? When will the first AI apply to YCombinator?
IANAD but reads like a textbook case of latent schizophrenia, especially with the frequent cannabis use[0]. [0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7442038/