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She Trusted ChatGPT With Her Medication Decisions. It Cost Her (Life)
(www.nytimes.com)
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this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2026
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Wow, sounds like she was a smart person, yet completely got brainwashed by AI.
It really sounds like she just wanted confirmation that it was a bad idea but she never got it
There are plenty of increadibly smart people who makes utterly dumb decisions.
These things abuse deep psychology. Our ability to anthropomorphize inanimate objects is being (purposefully) targeted by these LLM's, and it goes deeper than intelligence.
This harm was first postulated back in the 70's with Eliza and is fully coming to fruition with the widespread use and shudder "trust" of these tools.
I don't even understand how people anthromorphize LLMs. They all read like "this person was lonely" or "this person was in mental health crisis."
I was too? I found out my ex-wife was still having an affair 3 years after she "cut it off." I TRIED to use LLMs to "generate" companionship. On purpose. (side note, I did get the actual professional help I needed)
Either something else is deeply wrong with these people, or, more likely, something is deeply wrong with me.
People are different. People value different things. Some people are more susceptible to chatbot addiction, just like how some people are more susceptible to gambling addiction. It’s simple as that.
Eh, they're either not tuned to you, or you have a bias that's blocking you from engaging with their output.
I definitely have a bias, I'm always looking for the intelligence behind the words and getting repulsed when it's not there.
But I know intelligent, normal people who aren't looking for that and are quite happy consuming the slop.
And then there are people who get output that's tuned exactly to their mental state. Which does not end well at all.
Some kinds of smart people fall hardest for scams.