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Dying for a reference on the cult stuff, a quick search didn’t provide anything interesting.

ToucanLoucan 1y ago
Scroll through the ChatGPT subreddit right now and tell me there isn't a TON of people in there who are legitimately unwell. Reads like the back page notes of a dystopian novel.
- arandomhuman 1y ago
  I think this is less caused by ChatGPT/LLMs and more of a phenomenon in social media circles where people flock to "the thing" and have poor social skills and mental health generally speaking.
wizzwizz4 1y ago
https://futurism.com/chatgpt-mental-health-crises https://futurism.com/chatgpt-mental-health-crises, which references the more famous https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spi... but is a newer article.
- xz0r 1y ago
  The article links to a forum post which kind of explains how engagement is maximised https://community.openai.com/t/uncovering-the-intent-behind-a-recursive-labyrinth-of-gpt-dialogues/1156447/47?page=5 https://community.openai.com/t/uncovering-the-intent-behind-...
  - wizzwizz4 1y ago
    Poetic, but I don't think that really explains anything.
    - xz0r 1y ago
      Ever thought about how there's a magnetic quality to mirrors that keeps us looking? I see GPT in a similar light, it functions as a mirror, reflecting aspects of our reality.
      - MangoToupe 1y ago
        I don't think GPTs reflect much of us at all, because we ultimately must translate into language what chatbots lack (motivation, caring about things, emotions, biased stimulation like pain and pleasure, etc) Language is a large part of how we think about ourselves, but I don't think chatbots can tap much into what it is to be human or what we care about/feel outside of what we've already written, and are thus kind of useless as fetishes for humanity. So far, anyway.
MangoToupe 1y ago
In addition to what the parent commenter was likely referring to, there are also the Zizians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zizians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zizians

Scroll through the ChatGPT subreddit right now and tell me there isn't a TON of people in there who are legitimately unwell. Reads like the back page notes of a dystopian novel.

arandomhuman 1y ago
I think this is less caused by ChatGPT/LLMs and more of a phenomenon in social media circles where people flock to "the thing" and have poor social skills and mental health generally speaking.

wizzwizz4 1y ago

https://futurism.com/chatgpt-mental-health-crises https://futurism.com/chatgpt-mental-health-crises, which references the more famous https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spi... but is a newer article.

xz0r 1y ago
The article links to a forum post which kind of explains how engagement is maximised https://community.openai.com/t/uncovering-the-intent-behind-a-recursive-labyrinth-of-gpt-dialogues/1156447/47?page=5 https://community.openai.com/t/uncovering-the-intent-behind-...
- wizzwizz4 1y ago
  Poetic, but I don't think that really explains anything.
  - xz0r 1y ago
    Ever thought about how there's a magnetic quality to mirrors that keeps us looking? I see GPT in a similar light, it functions as a mirror, reflecting aspects of our reality.
    - MangoToupe 1y ago
      I don't think GPTs reflect much of us at all, because we ultimately must translate into language what chatbots lack (motivation, caring about things, emotions, biased stimulation like pain and pleasure, etc) Language is a large part of how we think about ourselves, but I don't think chatbots can tap much into what it is to be human or what we care about/feel outside of what we've already written, and are thus kind of useless as fetishes for humanity. So far, anyway.

MangoToupe 1y ago

In addition to what the parent commenter was likely referring to, there are also the Zizians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zizians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zizians