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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 51 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I only just found out about the Tulpa community and it feels like Western Society is entering a mental health crisis that’s somehow even worse than when we were all getting drunk and hitting each other just to make it through the week.

Narcissists get lost in AI like it's a true mirror of Narcissus. The Greeks were on a sick one with that story, thousands of years old and extremely relevant today.

Unfortunately, narcissism and narcissistic delusions are contagious because they are simply belief systems. It isn't a biological or medical thing, it is a belief set. So AI really does make them worse and imo grooms people into narcissistic thinking habits.