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Re:Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software – Rsync by rf15 on Sunday May 31, 2026 @06:19AM (#48344498)
funny speculative question: psychosis is evidently a gradient. Does AI just highlight latent general psychosis (i.e. in the simplified interpretation of a worldview shaped more by unchecked belief and fantasy than observation) in otherwise largely functional people?

What if the problem is that we train people too much to take things that are being said at face value without questioning/observing them, increasing the psychosis problem?

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Re:Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software – Rsync by ethbr1 on Sunday May 31, 2026 @11:17AM (#48346383)
Everyone is susceptible to addictions or psychosis to some degree.

What matters is when the stimulus presented exceeds their resistance.

Extended AI use is a highly attractive stimulus that exceeds most people's resistance, especially when sycophantically interacted with in an echo chamber (human-AI, with no other humans in the room).

So yes, it's dangerous in the same way that cigarettes and social media are.

Just because some people can avoid slipping into it, doesn't mean we should ignore population-as-a-whole outcomes.

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