Discussion no.10, We Investigated AI Psychosis. What We Found Will Shock You

Link to the Viewing

(I don't know if the video has a trigger warning, but there is incidental discussion of suicidal ideation, and it discusses a case where someone did commit suicide)

Introduction

This chronicles the work of Karen Hao, on More Perfect Union's YouTube channel. She is a journalist whose name you may have heard about from her book Empire of AI.

This video is in some ways, the "other side" of our other viewing, Sean Grove's Prompt Engineering is Dead, Everything is a Spec it shows the effects of this technology on people.

Things to Think About

• What is your relationship to the positivity or in its worst iterations, sychophancy of LLM chatbots like ChatGPT?
• Consider other interfaces an LLM like OpenAI might have chosen, and how a chatbot might make a human more invested in speaking with it. What other interfaces might be more convenient? effective? productive?
• Have you experienced anything approaching AI Psychosis? Do you know anyone who has? If no, why do you think someone might be lured in by the sycophancy of an LLM chatbot?
• What are your thoughts on this technology essentially being beta-tested on humanity?
• What are potential positive effects of AI sycophancy?

What to submit

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