Do you want people's names published in HIV weekly?

Medical stuff should be 100% private, between you and your doctor.

Isn't that exactly what this person points out in the thread linked in GP? They compare it directly to triggers in other decades.

Totally, I think it's different to some degree in terms of the velocity.

In a traditional forum they may have to wait for others to engage, and that's not even guaranteed. Whereas with an llm you can just go back and forth continually, with something that never gets tired and is excited to communicate with you, reinforcing your beliefs.

I think the key difference here is that ChatGPT and its ilk give an unlimited stream of yes-you-are-the-always-correct-genius sycophancy literally designed for engagement. The kind of niche rabbitholes existing from before LLMs are generally either rate-limited by being a limited number of actual people with strongly similar views (doomsday preppers, niche cults, etc), or so huge and chaotic that pure-strain sycophancy won't happen (reddit, 4chan).

He does make that point further down. He also makes the point that in the past there was a similar syndrome around TV and radio, where schizophrenics would say the CIA (it was usually the CIA) was beaming thoughts into their brains.

Interestingly, no one is accusing ChatGPT of working for the CIA.

(Of course I have no idea if that's rational or delusional.)

Anyway - this really needs some hard data with a control group to see if more people are becoming psychotic, or whether it's the same number of psychotics using different tools/means.

Oh right. Reading this from random user, who seemingly has no training on therapy or psychology makes sense.

Similar to reading how a database should be built from a web developer.

Considering how hard actual quality training of a psychologist is, this is even more crazy

> Seems more likely that their inherent psychosis latched onto AI instead of being caused by it.

This is what the author of the tweet thread says.

The difference being that the moneyed interests behind these things over promise their abilities, misrepresent their limitations, and refuse to monitor usage in anyway that would reduce engagement.

Combine that with people who are largely tech illiterate and you will hear “if ai says it it must be true”, or “ai knows more than you so it must be correct”.

Then when that same magic technology starts telling you you are special, you believe it because the machine is always right.

I grew up in a medical houshold, and there is a specific speach mode that doctors use when discussing patients(cases), that anonimises the idividual.......as it is part of practicing medicine , conveying information to other patients, and there own study and learning it is quite common.