i feel like i don't have the words to properly describe how it feels to see people who opinions i respected and valued slowly fall into ai psychosis. it's so slow and so subtle at first. "i'm just experimenting! i'm not an ai booster!"

then wait a few months, and they start explaining with the usual flawed, incoherent reasoning how actually it's all very interesting and thought-provoking, whilst pointing at an LLM that is so obviously just a reflection of their own ego.

@jacqueline I believe it is way more common than we know - something about this stuff hammers people's brains in a way that we (society) are not prepared for. And these are folks who should know better! They work with computers, they know it's just matrix multiplication in there! But knowing about it, I guess, provides to immunization to being taken in by its sycophantic mirroring language.
@jacqueline r/MyBoyfriendIsAI is a cautionary tale, but I have a friend mentioned seeing a girl on the bus asking ChatGPT to give her a pep talk before going on a date. Just, everyday random people, getting taken in by the illusion that the computer is giving of being more than a computer. I truly think we're not aware of how many people are being swayed by all this. It's gotta be more insidious than just the worst cases we see in the news.
@greg r/MyBoyfriendIsAI is scary