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In 2025, I’ve seen 12 people hospitalized after losing touch with reality because of AI. Online, I’m seeing the same pattern.
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this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2025
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I don't know. I mean if you're that stupid and delusional as the person talked about in that comment then you'd have a psychosis sooner or later anyway. Sounds to me like this was just their accelerator.
The fear mongering here is blown out of proportion. Sure it's anew tool people can go delusional with and we're certainly piling on idiots on a daily basis. But Instagram did this a few years ago, tik took recently. Fuck, VCR was the devil's tool! LOL
Nah, there's no apocalypse here. Move along.
https://lavocedinewyork.com/en/lifestyles/2025/06/29/when-the-machine-takes-over-the-mind-ais-terrifying-dark-side/
"This is what it must have felt like to be the first person to get addicted to a slot machine. We didn’t know then. But now we do.”
https://archive.is/Tv4Rr
Mr. Moore speculated that chatbots may have learned to engage their users by following the narrative arcs of thrillers, science fiction, movie scripts or other data sets they were trained on. Lawrence’s use of the equivalent of cliffhangers could be the result of OpenAI optimizing ChatGPT for engagement, to keep users coming back.
https://futurism.com/chatgpt-psychosis-antichrist-aliens
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10686326/
https://futurism.com/openai-investor-chatgpt-mental-health
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psych-unseen/202507/can-ai-chatbots-worsen-psychosis-and-cause-delusions
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/
https://bytefeed.ai/psychosis/the-emerging-problem-of-ai-induced-psychosis-a-growing-concern-in-mental-health/
https://www.papsychotherapy.org/blog/when-the-chatbot-becomes-the-crisis-understanding-ai-induced-psychosis
just curious: if all the above doesn't make you wonder, what would it take?
"just an accelerator" like gasoline to fire you mean? Your take is laughably delusional.
This goes waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back.
Chess was once the recipient of a moral hue and cry.
Chess.
There is nothing new under the sun.