People have been exhausted, stressed, poor, and lonely for centuries, and, yes, those factors worsen people’s mental health.
The current Western loneliness epidemic, especially, has been worsening for decades - “Bowling Alone”, published in 2000, was one of the first popular discussions of a trend already present in the '90s - and, especially after COVID, loneliness and isolation (and fucking social media doomscrolling) have worsened people’s mental health even further. You’re not wrong. It’s a real thing.
And this may make people more vulnerable to AI-induced psychosis. If you don’t have any real people to talk to, and you rely on an AI tool for the illusion of companionship, that’s not a good sign for your mental health in general.
AND ALSO. AI-induced psychosis is, itself, a real thing, and it’s induced by people’s misunderstanding of how LLMs work (that is, thinking there’s a real mind behind the language generating algorithm) and LLM programming that’s designed to addict users by providing validation and positive feedback. And the more widely LLM tools are used, the more they’re crammed into every app, and the more their backers talk up how “smart” they are, the more common AI-induced psychosis is going to become.
I mean, back in the day, people had to be deeply mentally ill before they started imagining their dog was telling them they were God. Now you can get an LLM to tell you it’s God, or you’re God, after a few hundred hours of conversation. I think the horror stories of mental illness we’re seeing now are just going to be the tip of the iceberg.
There so much mental illness because everyone is exhausted, stressed, poor and lonely.
But nah, surely it’s the AI bro
Don’t mistake the soil for the seed.
People have been exhausted, stressed, poor, and lonely for centuries, and, yes, those factors worsen people’s mental health.
The current Western loneliness epidemic, especially, has been worsening for decades - “Bowling Alone”, published in 2000, was one of the first popular discussions of a trend already present in the '90s - and, especially after COVID, loneliness and isolation (and fucking social media doomscrolling) have worsened people’s mental health even further. You’re not wrong. It’s a real thing.
And this may make people more vulnerable to AI-induced psychosis. If you don’t have any real people to talk to, and you rely on an AI tool for the illusion of companionship, that’s not a good sign for your mental health in general.
AND ALSO. AI-induced psychosis is, itself, a real thing, and it’s induced by people’s misunderstanding of how LLMs work (that is, thinking there’s a real mind behind the language generating algorithm) and LLM programming that’s designed to addict users by providing validation and positive feedback. And the more widely LLM tools are used, the more they’re crammed into every app, and the more their backers talk up how “smart” they are, the more common AI-induced psychosis is going to become.
I mean, back in the day, people had to be deeply mentally ill before they started imagining their dog was telling them they were God. Now you can get an LLM to tell you it’s God, or you’re God, after a few hundred hours of conversation. I think the horror stories of mental illness we’re seeing now are just going to be the tip of the iceberg.
Sure man go sue those machines. Lmao
It may surprise you to learn that machines are made by people.