Pretty freaky article, and it doesn’t surprise me that chatbots could have this effect on some people more vulnerable to this sort of delusional thinking.
I also thought this was very interesting that even a subreddit full of die-hard AI evangelists (many of whom have an already religious-esque view of AI) would notice and identify a problem with this behavior.
They didn’t identify any problem…
They noticed some people have worst symptoms, and write those people off. While not even second-guessing their own delusions.
That’s not rare either, it’s default human behavior.
You’re being awfully hard on them for having so much in common…
In the article they quoted the moderator (emphasis mine):
It seems pretty clear to me that they view it as a problem. Why ban something if they don’t see it as a problem?
Then I’m shocked you didn’t make it to the second sentence:
Or even worse, you did read that and just can’t realize the connection between two sentences.
But I’ll never understand why people want to argue, you could have asked and I’d have explained it, you’d have learned something.
Instead you wanted a slap fight because you didn’t understand what someone said.