Comment on They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
Letstakealook@lemm.ee 2 days ago
A 42 year old man stopped taking his meds and doing ketamine because a chat bot told him he could escape the matrix. I believe this man’s mental health struggles extend beyond anxiety. This is wholly absurd.
silence7@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
Problem is that people think the chatbots are intelligent, and they’re not, so recommendations which would seem absurd if they came from people get followed. They’re very able to make mental health problems worse, and there are a lot of examples of this.
Normal people respond to addiction or mental illness of people they interact with in ways not designed to make things worse. That’s not too much to ask of chatbots.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I love and appreciate your optimism.
Yes it is, because LLMs aren’t people. They don’t think or reason or consider. If someone was standing on a bridge, and a parrot said “do it, squawk, do it” you wouldn’t blame the parrot.
Maybe you should blame the people who spent the last half decade proclaiming loudly that parrots hold all wisdom and soon parrots will take your job and rule world. Those people make billions of dollars off of parrots, but the birds themselves aren’t people and cant think.