higgsboson@piefed.social 2 days ago
I dipped in for this:
In a given week, OpenAI estimated that around 0.07 percent of active ChatGPT users show “possible signs of mental health emergencies related to psychosis or mania” and 0.15 percent “have conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent.”
It’s extrapolated from their own user count:
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said earlier this month that ChatGPT now has 800 million weekly active users. The company’s estimates therefore suggest that every seven days, around 560,000 people may be exchanging messages with ChatGPT that indicate they are experiencing mania or psychosis. About 2.4 million more are possibly expressing suicidal ideations or prioritizing talking to ChatGPT over their loved ones, school, or work.
Sure, but I mean the more important numbers, which would be how this compares to a control sample, or at least comparing it to the overall population. Otherwise this could be less psychosis than expected.
I feel like science denialist cultism is a form of psychosis the vast majority of people seem to have, so measuring it every week from a few hundred thousand people is definitely surprisingly low
Hackworth@piefed.ca 2 days ago
higgsboson@piefed.social 2 days ago
While there is some overlap, Bipolar disorder very much does not map 1:1 with people experiencing psychosis. So that isnt very helpful.
Hackworth@piefed.ca 2 days ago
Yeah, there’s no real data for “show signs of manic or psychotic crisis,” as far as I can tell. I just went for the low-hanging fruit, since mania is often part of bipolar (manic-depressive). But if just bipolar is sitting at 2.8% of Americans in a given year, I think it’s reasonable to say the loosely defined stats in the headline aren’t notably high.
higgsboson@piefed.social 2 days ago
Ahh, right, that is what I was getting at. I suspect that the percentage of people who have at some point experienced psychotic symptoms is probably higher than most people realize.