Dave RahardjaMar 14

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cslinuxboy/116225578585237555

This is not “normal”. Skilled and productive people falling heads over heels over a word predictor and thinking it’s sentient is not normal. This is not the kind of effects that normal automation tools do. This is WEIRD and NOT NORMAL.

Something strange is happening here. This “tool” is modifying well-adjusted human brains in a strange (and I think destructive) way, and we’re seeing it happen to some prominent person every week. How many people are being taken in that we don’t even hear about?

#ai

Show threadCybarbieMar 15
@drahardja fwiw and re:'not normal' - it might be perfectly normal for people to develop exogenous psychosis as a result of overuse of this technology, or for certain individuals to be at risk of.
Show threadDave RahardjaMar 15
@nf3xn I was using “normal” to refer to the tool, not the human: tools don’t normally do this to their users. But I 100% agree with you that it’s normal for *humans* to respond this way to such tools at some measurable rate, as evidenced by the constant drip of news about prominent people who do.
Show threadclew

Yes-but-and, Fiction does something like this to some people; fiction has represented that in _Laura_, _Crime and Punishment_, etc. Chat interfaces sure speed it up.

@drahardja @nf3xn

Mar 15 at 5:46pmWeb