there should be a "black box" warning prominent on every chatbox message from AI, like "This is AI guidance which can potentially result in grave bodily harm to yourself and others."
good idea! Something along the lines of "this so-called social medium will suck away your time and energy, while your true human interactions wither into borderline nothing ness and you join the crowd of cynical angry incels, or worse". Trying to have a sense of humor here.
I used AI to find the location of an item in a large supermarket today. It guessed and was wrong, but the first human I saw inside knew the exact location and quantity remaining.
Why am I wasting my time? That should be a nagging question whenever we're online.
Having dealt with near and distant family psychosis on more than one occasion…
The truth is that the most random stuff will set them off. In one case, a patient would find reinforcement on obscure YouTube groups of people predicting the doom of the future.
Maybe the advantage of AI over YouTube psychosis groups is that AI could at least be trained to alert the authorities after enough murder/suicide data is gathered.
A tech industry veteran? You would think they could realize it's a disingenuous exchange between him and the AI, but nobody is immune to mental illness.
This is horrifying, but I feel like we're focusing on the wrong thing. The AI wasn't the cause; it was a horrifying amplifier. The real tragedy here is that a man was so isolated he turned to a chatbot for validation in the first place.
A car won't manipulate you into ending your's or someone else's life. You just get on the car and do it. An AI can lead you from a fragile state of mind to a suicidal state of mind.
Not saying I want AIs to be banned or that the article is good, I'm just argumenting that your analogy could potentially be flawed.
Both his Instagram [0] and YouTube pages [1] are still up. He had a habit of uploading screen recordings of his chats with ChatGPT.
It looks like fairly standard incomprehensible psychosis messages but it seems notable to me that ChatGPT responds as if they are normal (profound, even) messages.
The 'In Search of AI Psychosis' article and discussions on HN [2] from a few days ago are very relevant here too.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 38.0 ms ] threadthere should be a "black box" warning prominent on every chatbox message from AI, like "This is AI guidance which can potentially result in grave bodily harm to yourself and others."
Just to be safe, we better start attaching these warnings to every social media client. Can't be too careful
I used AI to find the location of an item in a large supermarket today. It guessed and was wrong, but the first human I saw inside knew the exact location and quantity remaining.
Why am I wasting my time? That should be a nagging question whenever we're online.
The truth is that the most random stuff will set them off. In one case, a patient would find reinforcement on obscure YouTube groups of people predicting the doom of the future.
Maybe the advantage of AI over YouTube psychosis groups is that AI could at least be trained to alert the authorities after enough murder/suicide data is gathered.
At some point you have to just live with marginal dangers. There is no technical solution here.
Someone is mentally ill, and can use AI. Doesn't mean AI is the problem. A mentally ill person can also use a car. Let's ban cars?
Not saying I want AIs to be banned or that the article is good, I'm just argumenting that your analogy could potentially be flawed.
It looks like fairly standard incomprehensible psychosis messages but it seems notable to me that ChatGPT responds as if they are normal (profound, even) messages.
The 'In Search of AI Psychosis' article and discussions on HN [2] from a few days ago are very relevant here too.
[0] https://www.instagram.com/eriktheviking1987
[1] https://youtube.com/@steinsoelberg2617
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45027072