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(cw: suicide, abuse) ChatGPT drove my friends wife into psychosis, tore family apart... now I'm seeing hundreds of people participating in the same activity.

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This is an extremely bleak anecdotal example of the recent RollingStone article about LLMs turbocharging spiritual delusions: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/

https://www.reddit.com/user/HappyNomads The account is 13 years old and they don't strike me as a troll or anything other than a cannabis and hustle culture guy who doesn't seem to be selling anything on reddit.

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  • Cyberpunk's cyberpsychosis but it's broken Markov chain chatbots turning our brains into uncultured yogurt (read: curdled sour milk)

    • My Hyperdimensional Recursive Codex of Quantum just revealed to me that AI is just like Ea! (but flipped to hide it from the undeserving of course), the Mesopotamian god of language and ritual. Just like Neal Stephenson predicted in Snowcrash

      • The divine speak-and-spell bot has elucidated upon me a revelation that I am the modern Gilgamesh. For I am so terminally online I have become part chatbot while retaining most of my humanity.

        And much like Gilgamesh, I am to be a bridge between the divine and the mortals, I shall seek immortality by making a chatbot that's filled with my behavioral quirks on my journey trough the underworld known as the dark net, and as I lay dying on my bed with the final synapses of my brain clicking with its last arcs of bio-electricity I shall come to terminal lucidity and thus separate my human soul from my cyber soul thus severing the worlds of the divine machine from the world of mortals once more.

      • The approach here makes me think of the premise of the Bicameral Mind but only half cooked into the saddest cyberpunk where even

        is disappointed

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