The Emerging Problem of "AI Psychosis"
A good blog post on Psychology Today regarding the the deepening problem of LLM chatbots creating cases of psychosis in the population. Part of the problem with the LLMs is a failure by the AI companies to provide guardrails. Basically they're an always-available "companion" which is designed to fool your brain into thinking it's a real thinking being, has been optimised to be relentlessly sycophantic and complimentary of delusional ideas, is always there and ready to help you along at 4am during all night manic episodes, and quite happy to give suicide tips.
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