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by ethbr1 11 days ago
Everyone is susceptible to addictions or psychosis to some degree.

What matters is when the stimulus presented exceeds their resistance.

Extended AI use is a highly attractive stimulus that exceeds most people's resistance, especially when sycophantically interacted with in an echo chamber (human-AI, with no other humans in the room).

So yes, it's dangerous in the same way that cigarettes and social media are.

Just because some people can avoid slipping into it, doesn't mean we should ignore population-as-a-whole outcomes.