With how aggressively it’s being pushed I wonder what percentage of CEOs and their ilk are in full blown AI psychosis at this point

Wow, men were already creepy and stalker-y enough, now we got some constantly on-line machine that’s whole job seems to be validating whatever crazy behavior the person is engaged in… Quote from the article is now you “…can have mob mentality without the mob.”

That’s scary. Internet used to let you connect with other people that had the same interests as you, making you feel a lot less alone in the world. Now, it doesn’t bother connecting you with anyone, it just gives you a nice positive feedback loop of your own crazy turned to 11. Everybody with their own, personal fan-girl in their pocket, available any time of day or night. Man people are just too stupid, you can’t be going around validating everybody’s ideas. Some people have some crazy fucking ideas

Jesus Christ, this technology has to be destroyed. It literally turned a normal dude into a delusional stalker. I’ve observed that most people who tend to hate LLMs are artists and/or queer people, of which a lot of them have some sort of mental illness and know a thing or two about being manic and thus refuse to engage with chatbots because they know it’ll destroy their lives (it’s me, I’m both, and so are all of my friends). Normies have no such safeguards or experience and thus are the most vulnerable to having their brains cooked by a chatbot.

Jesus fuck that’s bad. And it really reminds me of my experiences being targeted by a delusional woman with a personality disorder, which is something I’d never wish on anyone. In fact it kinda makes me wonder if she was using ai during the whole thing (probably not, she seemed to be lifelong crazy)

Also this tech feels increasingly lovecraftian: we’re churning up the destruction of the fundamental particles of matter using a technology made to end the world to create horrible machines to think unthought thoughts that drive people to a destructive madness

I wonder if “leading to” is the right phrase.

In my view of things, echo chambers have always existed and it could just as easily been an “AITA” post on reddit that fed this man’s delusions and convinced him to stalk this woman.

The fact is, this happens more than society likes to think and even when you think you’re safe and the person’s fixation on you has wanted, you may find yourself in danger because that feeling of distance over time has only lead to a false sense of security.

lt is apparent to me that Generative AI Chatbots are heavily exacerbating the situation though. For one because there’s no friction in their echo chamber. An AITA post or posts like it are likely to get at least some users who disagree with the general consensus. That the friction matters.

I have questions about the validity of basing a person’s mental health on their view of it over years because for the most part everyone has trauma and most people aren’t medical professionals with the right skill set to diagnose or even properly observe key behaviors that would factor into such a diagnosis.

Every time I see one of these articles they seem to highlight that the people involved never experienced “mania” or “psychosis”. But it’s usually them saying that about themselves not a mental health professional commenting on it.

Remotely relevant but i recently called my mother, whom I’ve cut contact from for years, to check on her after some distant family reached out to me to beg me to make sure she’s fine.

She started talking about coming up with an “explanation” to some internal family drama, proudly exclaiming she came up with it all by herself, basically a conspiracy blaming my younger brother, I’m afraid she was using an LLM to affirm her delusions.

Wish i had more to say, this world can be so cruel :(

as OP indicates, its a rough read - but worth your time and sharing. thanks OP.