[causal]

It might be psychosis.

> Psychosis is the term for a collection of symptoms that happen when a person has trouble telling the difference between what’s real and what’s not[0]

For many seemingly intelligent, rational, competent humans AI has become a layer between them and reality that has absolutely sabotaged their ability to know what is real.

[0] https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/23012-psychos...

[ssl-3]

There probably are a non-zero number of people in the world who are afflicted with real-live AI psychosis.

For everyone else, that term is being applied with disingenuous levels of incompetence.

[pocksuppet]

There are lots of people who have chatbox psychosis, like the one who ChatGPT convinced to shoot up a school.

[gretch]

Or maybe this guy was always going to reach the endpoint of shooting up a school, and he happened to talk to ChatGPT along the way.

These people have existed long before llm chats and they had no problem committing horrific offence in the absence

[mcmcmc]

AI-induced psychosis... "AI Psychosis" is not a real thing. People who aren't psych professionals should stop trying to make psych diagnoses. I made another comment in another thread about this that got downvoted to hell, but as someone who has experienced actual psychosis (several years ago, unrelated to AI) it's extremely grating to see "AI Psychosis" become part of the zeitgeist, especially when psychosis is still highly stigmatized.

[saltcured]

It's a subtlety of context that distinguishes hyperbole from delusion...

[Lerc]

There is a difference between being unable to tell if something is true or false and bring unable to tell if something is real or not.

Eveyone has things that they don't know the answer to. There are also plenty of things that an individual is wrong about. There is a fundimental differsnce between being wrong about something and being delusional.

>AI has become a layer between them and reality that has absolutely sabotaged their ability to know what is real.

You could say much the same about adgenda driven media coverage on any given topic. That can lead a rational person to believe untrue things. The distinction is that, given that perspective, it is reasonable to believe those untrue things.

If you decade everyone who firmly believes untrue things to be psychotic you would have to apply that to everyone who doesn't share your religious views.