[paytonjjones]

Oh oh, I do research on this :)

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2167702620921341

(Research aside, it seems unlikely to me that a lot of people would stumble on that prompt accidentally in any case)

[butlike]

> We found substantial evidence that trigger warnings countertherapeutically reinforce survivors’ view of their trauma as central to their identity.

What I've suspected for a long time

[superb_dev]

Fascinating! I’d be very interested in further research on people with trauma/PTSD

[paytonjjones]

You might enjoy this, by a colleague of mine. It's a rarer situation, but this could be one harm pathway for those types of images. (In most cases, exposure is a good thing for people with PTSD) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2167702620917459

[queenkjuul]

Except the 100,000 or so who read the initial prompt on Twitter?

[qingcharles]

The prompt has been going around for months. 99.9% of the output it generates is simply weird, in a funny way, not horrific like in the article.

[paytonjjones]

If they saw it on Twitter then actively went and tried it, that wouldn't be very 'accidentally'