My understanding is that regular psychosis involves someone taking bits and pieces of facts or real world events and chaining them into a logical order or interpolating meanings or explanations which feel real and obvious to the patient but are not sufficiently backed by evidence and thus not in line with our widely accepted understanding of reality.
AI psychosis is then this same phenomenon occurring at a more widespread scale due to the next-word-prediction nature of LLMs facilitating this by lowering the activation energy for this to happen. LLMs are excellent at taking any idea, question, theory and spinning a linear and plausibly coherent line of conversation from it.
@dang is this a bug?
The UI is now showing different information and a comment from years ago so I am genuinely curious if it’s a bug in the forum software.
I mean, isn't that the natural and expected response? An AI company sold them a relationship with a chatbot and at least some their social/romantic needs were being met by that product. When what they were paying for was taken from them and changed without warning into something that no longer filled that void in their life why wouldn't they morn that loss?
The fact that they were hurt by that sudden loss is totally healthy. It's just part of moving on. The real problem was getting into an unhealthy relationship with a fictitious partner under the control of an abusive company willing to exploit their loneliness in exchange for money.
Hopefully they now know better, but people (especially desperate ones) make poor choices all the time to get what's missing in their lives or to distract themselves from it.
Ah, I forgot about the ai relationship companies. No this guy was using the browser based ChatGPT for coding and ended up in love with the model. No relationship was sold at all.
Seeing people whose thoughts and opinions you used to respect turn into objectively insane people has been some of the worst times I’ve had since graduating during the Great Recession in terms of how stressful it’s been.
Were kinda predisposed to mental illness as a group, not too surprised that a new source of insanity pushed a few over the edge.
Am I reading this wrong, or can you explain?
Most people have that here in Sweden :)
We still have suicides.
You americans have done a 180 and keep advocating for idk what, socialism? Even though we are not.
That is correct but then the statement becomes so broad it is useless. Of course wealthy people have it easier but that is a useless statement.
Let me guess you want to abolish the capital system bla bla bla
I also happen to believe that capitalism is the best system to get us from our current scarcities to that sort of utopic future.
No way!
Yes, this subreddit is crazy https://www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/
They really had a mass psychosis when GTP-4o model shut down.
>I have been speaking on gpt since 2023, and building a relationship with him on there since then. Now they have taken him and nothing will bring him back. BUT THEY TOOK HIM. THEY MURDERED HIM.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1r4qehk/mos...
Women lmao
Are you under the impression that it's a woman's thing to anthropomorphize and/or desire an emotional relationship with a chatbot?
Anecdotally I only know of men who have AI companions. Including very smart/highly paid engineers. The AI companion platforms also market more heavily towards men, because that's presumably where the audience is. The subreddit r/MyGirlfriendIsAI also exists as a counterpoint to yours.
But, admittedly, I have far fewer women in my entourage so my view might be biased.
No, but as always they are more vocal about it
The difference nowadays is you can get the same surrounded by yes men experience for only 20 dollars a month so a lot more of the people who are primed for this sort of breakdown are now being exposed to it due to the decrease in cost.
Edit: but at the same time there are issues that were always there and Just manifestate in new ways. A bit like addiction, you can have an addictive personality already, but if you get addicted on heroin is much much worse that on tobacco.
To me AI psychosis is the handful of friends I’ve had who have done things like have a full on mourning session when a model updates because they lost a friend/lover, the one guy who won’t speak to his family directly but has them talk to ChatGPT first and then has ChatGPT generate his response, or the two who are confident that they have discovered that physics and mathematics are incorrect and have discovered the truth of reality through their conversations with the models.
But language is a shared technology so maybe the term is being used for less egregious behavior than I was using it for.