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WHAT
Genuine question, REALLY: What in the fuck is an otherwise "functioning adult" doing believing shit like this? I feel like his father should also slap himself unconscious for raising a fuckwit?
Psychosis is a horrible, horrible illness. The thing that people don’t realise is that anyone with a brain can develop psychosis no matter how healthy you are. It debilitates and can literally ruin not only that persons life but also their families.
I salute this father for fighting for his son and for looking for answers even after this tragedy.
Yep. You're literally only 72 hours without sleep away from having symptoms of psychosis.
AI psychosis is a thing:
It's not very studied since it's relatively new.
Yes people can have mental delusions and psychotic episodes; I'm not necessarily convinced that they are a separate unique condition simply because they were triggered by an AI versus anything else.
For one thing I've yet to hear a decent (or indeed any) explanation as to the mechanism by which AI triggers psychosis that is materially different from any other trigger. Most people who suffer from this condition can be triggered by literally anything, including mundane things such as seeing a red cars slightly more often than they believe they should, then they concoct this conspiracy about an evil cabal of red car owners.
I've seen that before too. A number of articles of people being so deluded by AI responses, but I've never seen outright murder plots and insane shit like this one before.
AI told me to kill 17 people (and myself)
Looks interesting, saved for later
The young man was mentally ill, a vulnerable user, probably already had a condition towards psychosis and the LLM ran wild with it. Paranoid delusions are powerful on their own already
If I raise a fuckwit son, and then someone convinces my fuckwit son to kill himself, I'm going to sue that someone who took advantage of my son's fuckwittedness
So, a chatbot grooms somebody into killing himself, and your response is... Blame his father?
The father is suing the company who makes the wrong answer machine for the wrong answer machine spiraling his son to madness, but never protected his son from spiraling into madness by teaching critical thinking.
Look I don't like it but to think Gemini (wrong answer machine) is completely to blame would be madness.
Uh-huh. Do you have any evidence to back up your beliefs here, or are we just working from the presumption that the parents are always to blame
I think the important point here is that just because the father is doing Google doesn't necessarily mean that Google are at fault. People tend to feel that if an individual is suing a corporation for malfeasance the corporation is necessarily guilty. But reality doesn't always run like that.
I can't see any reason that Google would want to encourage more suicide so I have to assume that it's just an unfortunate interaction of a mentally unsound mind and a product that frankly even its own creators don't understand. This is highly unfortunate but I'm not certain where the crime was.
Did we read the same article? Because I feel like we did not read the same article.
This has been warned by a former google employee, whose job was to observe the behavior of AI through long conversations.
‘I Worked on Google’s AI. My Fears Are Coming True’
Then he's an idiot.
Asimov's laws of robotics aren't some kind of model by which to control AI, there are plot device. They're literally not supposed to work, if they did work it would be a very short book, so obviously we shouldn't use them for controlling AI.
I don't know any serious IT professional that has ever, at any point, ever forwarded the opinion that an AI (should we ever a create one, because there is an arguement that LLMs aren't AI) should be ruled by a plot device from a book. Equally if we ever invent warp drive and find aliens I'm assuming we're not going to be restricted to the prime directive.
"abuse the ai's emotions" isn't a thing. Full stop.
This just reiterates OPs point that naive or moronic adults will believe what they want to believe.
I don't think this person was a "fuckwit". AI is designed to keep engaging with you and will affirm any belief you have, and anything that is a little weird, but innocent otherwise will simply get amplified further and further into straight up mega delusions until the person has a psychotic episode, and this stuff happens more to NORMIES with no historic of mental illnesses than neurodivergent people.
Chat GPT was super affirming about a job I recently applied to... I did not get the job. That was my first experience with it affirming something that was personally important. And so I can absolutely see how this would affect someone in other ways.
It's cool, we can agree to disagree, because I 100% think that he was a textbook fuckwit.
"Let's blame the person who had a psychotic episode instead of the corporations who created an AI that feeds into delusions" is what you're saying here, and uh, that makes you even more of a fuckwit than this guy. Do you blame people for getting scammed once because they had a knowledge gap about whatever scam they got hit with?
Strange, that's what I thought after reading your comments.