[Turskarama]

Just because the users were already sick when they started using ChatGPT doesn't mean that ChatGPT isn't exacerbating the issue. Sickness isn't a boolean condition. A big problem with LLMs in general when it comes to people like this is that they are too sycophantic, they don't push back when you start acting strange and they're too gentle about trying to validate you.

[BobbyJo]

It's hyper palatable food in the form of conversation. I see society treating it the same way eventually, at least along this one axis of interaction.

[derektank]

I think this is a great analogy, but it’s not exactly an optimistic one. We haven’t really done a great job managing hyper palatable food up until this point tbh. The best solution we’ve found involves paying hundreds of dollars a month for a pharmaceutical that helps the people most at risk to the harms of hyper palatable food manage their cravings for it. I hope we find a better alternative for the people that get addicted to hyper palatable socializing, but maybe individual cognitive tinkering is the best tool we have.

[intended]

And we came up with this after DECADES of increasing life style illness, obesity related illnesses and mortality and a plethora of other issues.

[b00ty4breakfast]

boy, if we treat it like junk food, things are only going to get worse for some places in the world. The food over here in the states is pretty awful if you aren't paying attention. Sugar in everything, high calorie/low nutrition etc.

[b65e8bee43c2ed0]

>Just because the users were already sick when they started using X, doesn't mean that X isn't exacerbating the issue.

one could define X as virtually anything, and there's always a fresh crop of Tipper Gore wannabe grifters to decry the current thing.