“AI is rizzing them up in a very unhealthy way at the moment.”

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.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    4 days ago

    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…

    • Corgana@startrek.websiteOPEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      In the article they quoted the moderator (emphasis mine):

      “This whole topic is so sad. It’s unfortunate how many mentally unwell people are attracted to the topic of AI. I can see it getting worse before it gets better. I’ve seen sooo many posts where people link to their github which is pages of rambling pre prompt nonsense that makes their LLM behave like it’s a god or something,” the r/accelerate moderator wrote. “Our policy is to quietly ban those users and not engage with them, because we’re not qualified and it never goes well. They also tend to be a lot more irate and angry about their bans because they don’t understand it.”

      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?

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        It seems pretty clear to me that they view it as a problem

        Then I’m shocked you didn’t make it to the second sentence:

        They noticed some people have worst symptoms,

        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.