• Match!!@pawb.social
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    13 hours ago

    isn’t this just paranoid schizophrenia? i don’t think chatgpt can cause that

    • Skydancer@pawb.social
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      4 hours ago

      Could be. I’ve also seen similar delusions in people with syphilis that went un- or under-treated.

    • Alphane Moon@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      I have no professional skills in this area, but I would speculate that the fellow was already predisposed to schizophrenia and the LLM just triggered it (can happen with other things too like psychedelic drugs).

      • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
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        12 hours ago

        I’d say it either triggered by itself or potentially drugs triggered it, and then started using an LLM and found all the patterns to feed that shizophrenic paranoia. it’s avery self reinforcing loop

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        12 hours ago

        Yup. LLMs aren’t making people crazy, but they are making crazy people worse

    • nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      11 hours ago

      LLMs hallucinate and are generally willing to go down rabbit holes. so if you have some crazy theory then you’re more likely to get a false positive from a chatgpt.

      So i think it just exacerbates things more than alternatives