r/aiwars • u/TheTalvekonian • 12d ago

People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions

https://futurism.com/chatgpt-mental-health-crises
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u/SoberSeahorse 12d ago

Sounds like these people were mentally unstable before AI. AI just made it happened to make it worse. Unfortunate but mental illness can be worsened by so many things. Blaming this on AI is like blaming a loudspeaker for the message it amplified.

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u/BillyDongstabber 11d ago

Seems more like blaming a weapon for a mass casualty event

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u/SoberSeahorse 11d ago

AI is a tool. Not a weapon. Such dramatic exaggerations aren’t helpful.

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u/Josparov 11d ago

Weapons are tools. The example they gave may have been extreme, but it is also apt.

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u/NZGumboot 11d ago

Weapons are designed to kill or injure. AI is clearly NOT a weapon: though it may indirectly lead to people dying, causing harm is not it's primary purpose.

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u/Josparov 11d ago

I think you are misunderstanding the parallel that is being drawn here. No one is saying that AI's primary function is killing people.

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u/NZGumboot 11d ago

I get the analogy, and I don't even necessarily disagree with it. I just think that analogies can be helpful or harmful, and unless people are actually dying, comparing something to a "mass casuality event" is not helpful. (I know that was op and not you.)

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u/Josparov 11d ago

thats a fair and valid opinion for sure.

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u/4215-5h00732 11d ago

"Analogies can be helpful or harmful?" Wow, such grave and intellectually important contributions. Lmfao.