Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming Patterns

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Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming Patterns - Lemmy.World

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Huge Study

*Looks inside

this latest study examined the chat logs of 19 real users of chatbots — primarily OpenAI’s ChatGPT — who reported experiencing psychological harm as a result of their chatbot use.

Pretty small sample size despite being a large dataset that they pulled from, its still the dataset of just 19 people.

AI sucks in a lot of ways sure, but this feels like fud.

…fud?
It’s crypto bro speak.
What? The term FUD has been around since at least the 90s, though I think significantly older than that
Microsoft are masters of it, their whole business plan is dependent on it
It predates crypto by old enough to vote.
and yet it doesn’t stop being their jargon

The also use the words “the,” “at,” “is,” and “it,” but that doesn’t make it their jargon.

We really need to stop condemning entire words just because some people we don’t like used them…

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been accused of using a “dogwhistle” because I used a totally innocuous word in accordance with its literal meaning without having any idea that it’s apparently been co-opted by some group of hate-filled extremists because I don’t follow those groups and I don’t know their lingo

Like, soon we won’t have any words left that we’re still allowed to use. Language is already getting dumbed down, and I’m tired of walking on eggshells lest I say a word that could potentially be misinterpreted in light of a vague association to a different term that has a double-entendre that some niche circles use in some reprehensible way in their ostensibly secret code, or that I didn’t know was a euphemism…

it’s not exclusively their jargon, but it is their jargon.

I’m not arguing with you, at what point did I claim you said anything that I disagree with?

I was just using your comment as a springboard

sorry, maybe i’m reading tone into your italics that isn’t there. tone over text is hard and i don’t sleep a lot.
It’s understandable. I was frustrated, and the italics were meant to express my frustration. I just didn’t intend for it to feel directed at you… my bad…
hey no worries
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say you probably don’t deserve it. I’ve seen your other comments and you seem conscientious, relatable, and like you’re doing the best you can just like the rest of us…
oh i’m not talking about here, just talking about life

Life is… brutal…

It doesn’t have to be. We humans are capable of being civilized, we’ve done it before. For a while I thought world peace was within our reach, at least in my lifetime, but now I’m not so sure…

Even on the smaller scale, people don’t have to be so cruel to each other. It’s a choice. A deeply-ingrained, generational pattern, maybe, but a choice to wake up each day and continue living in that inertia.

Of course, it takes more than an individual to break that tide. It’s a collective choice. But collective choices are just the sum of all the individual choices that reach critical mass…

I’m just absently philosophizing… don’t mean to blow smoke up your ass…

don’t mean to blow smoke up your ass…

Oh they tried that it doesn’t make the hole work any better

😳
there are some really weird medical tests
It’s literally just sales speak. They also say coin all the time, and that doesn’t mean I can’t call something a coin without being associated with crypto bros.
i mean jargon can be a shibboleth