Danielle ForéRE: https://mastodon.social/@alatiera/116121840547051962
AI psychosis is such a huge problem already and it will only get worse
Matt May@danirabbit Every time I see a nerd say "I can't tell this from actual human" I realize exactly how little they value or even practice human interaction. Like basically other humans serve you on demand and anything else you can find on Wikipedia or Reddit.
Hak Foo 
@mattmay @danirabbit That feels like it's worth a deeper dive, though. Why is a blinking box as good as a human interaction?
Did they have poor foundational relationships and evolved shallow transactionality as a defence mechanism? It might kick in after the money, if they got surrounded by golddiggers.
Or is it a loss-oriented model? Family members die, friends move on, but a programmed machine will always call you sweetheart and let you run the same D&D campaign every night forever.
Vítor@hakfoo @mattmay I suspect it may have to do with how so many of us “found our tribe” on the early days before social media. When you’re an outcast or don’t have people around you who share your interests but then make friends on the internet, some of those people can become your closest companions, even if you never share a real name or a photo of your faces.
Fast-forward a couple of decades, and your interaction with the chatbot *looks* fundamentally the same: you type into a box and you get text back. Furthermore, what you get back is always supporting you, the outcast. It doesn’t judge you, it doesn’t cause you pain, it “understands” you. For a broken person, that respite is everything.
Tangentially, that’s also how hate groups recruit new members: find the lonely ones and offer them a comforting place and support, then sell them your ideology by convincing them their unhappiness is caused by the group they hate.
@vitor @hakfoo Okay, one more note 😁
This mentality is fully vulnerable to the *maxxing stuff. They’re told what they want and can’t get (namely, a sex partner) is because those people are attracted to chiseled jaws and cut physiques. Or more darkly, that they respond to pickup artist psych-outs like negging and gaslighting, and so you have to reprogram yourself to “get” them.
Never any meditation on the fact that they’re sociopaths who treat people like chattel, or little puzzles to solve.