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I’m really not a fan of the therapy speak and everyone trying to diagnose everyone. Historically, this kinda medicalization of everyone you disagree with has not led to good things.

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"AI psychosis" is a colloquial term, not a medical one. It's basic use is essentially to be glamoured (in the vampire sense) by the machine. To have too much trust in it, etc. Nobody thinks these people are literally psychotic.

Oh, I am certain some of them are. I've met a few.

What historical examples are you thinking of?

A few examples come to mind: the 20 or so nazi psychiatrists who classified over 200,000 people as "unfit" to justify their "euthanasia". The USSR using the term "sluggish schizophrenia" to institutionalize dissidents without trial. And the whole "drapetomania" thing which was the mental illness of black slaves that kept running away.

This is very common. Psychiatry has been used as a weapon since its very beginning.

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