Lots of skepticism in the comments, I want to share that I have seen this first hand twice. Yes it is possible that it's a coincidence and with so many people u

Lots of skepticism in the comments, I want to share that I have seen this first hand twice. Yes it is possible that it's a coincidence and with so many people using chatgpt some are bound to have mental health crises and experience it with heavy chatgpt use coincidentally, but it's also possible that there is correlation? Mass usage is still very young, yes most people have tried it, but we are increasingly starting to use this, and there's people spiking in usage every day. Scientific study of this subject will take years to even get started and then to get definitive (or p<0.05) results. Let's just keep an open mind on this one, and as always, use our a-priori thinking when a-posteriori empiricism is not yet available. Yes, people are experiencing psychosis that looks related to the chatgpt bot and possibly caused by it, and we have seen it act like a sycophant and it was acknowledged by Sama himself, and it's still doing that btw, it's not like they totally corrected it, finally we know that being a yes-man increases usage of the tool, so it's possible that the algorithm is not only optimizing for AGI but for engagement, like the incumbent Algorithms. At this point, at least for me personally, the onus is on model makers to prove that their tools are safe, rather than on concerned mental health professionals to prove that they are not. Social media is already recognized as unhealthy, but at least we are engaging in conversation with real humans? Like we are now? I feel it's like sharpening my mental claws, or taking care of my mind, even if it's a worse version than real life conversation. But if I felt like if I was talking with a human but I actually was talking with an LLM? No, no. You are crazy if you think LLMs are safe, I use them strictly for productive and professional reasons, never for philosophical or emotional support. A third experience is that I was asked if I thought using ChatGPT as a psychologist would be a good idea, of course not? Why are you asking me this, I get that shrinks are expensive, but do I need to spell it out? I don't personally know of anyone using ChatGPT as a girlfriend, but maybe I do know them and they hide it, but we know from the news that there's products out there that cater to this market. Maybe to the participants of this forum, where we are used to LLM as a coding tool, and where we kind of understand it so we don't use it as a personal hallucination, this looks crazy. But start asking normies how they are using chatgpt, I don't think this is just a made up clickbait concern.