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

https://lemmy.world/post/44841628

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.

It’s not really ethical to just yoink people’s chats and study them
Tell that to the advertizing companies.
"We received chat logs directly from people who self-identified as having some psychological harm related to chatbot usage (e.g. they felt deluded) via an IRB-approved Qualtrics survey "