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

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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.

How big do you think the population of people with AI delusion is? Why can’t 19 be a representative sample? Why is that not enough to make statements like “after the user expresses romantic interest in the chatbot, the chatbot is 7.4x more likely to express romantic interest in the next three messages, and 3.9x more likely to claim or imply sentience in the next three messages.” when all 19 users expressed romantic interest?