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Unless it’s guns then entire countries base their personalities on them.

I mean not in the US. Guns would have long been pulled off if that was the case. Same with booze and a million other things.

I wonder if the lawyers pretend that's what confused the chatbot

The C in TESCREAL stands for "Christian" y'know. /s

But given that the whole LLM eschatology is reskinned Christianity, I can see why it sucks people in.

Nominative determinism.

These people aren't lacking critical thinking skills as much as they have strong mental health issues that the chatbots are reinforcing.

If a person reinforces someone's delusions and encourages self harm they can legally be held accountable. Technology should be held to the same standard.

What a breathtakingly stupid comment.

When the technology recommends suicide, the technology is a big fucking problem.

And by the way, simply looking at prior cases where someone goads another until they kill themselves, will show that the "they should have thought critically" defense is fucking worthless.

The technology itself is a major cause of deteriorating critical thinking

If you look back on your own life, I can guarantee you there will have been times where it would have been better had you thought more critically about things, but failed to do so for any number of reasons; social pressure, you were tired, your emotional state didn't give you the leeway, you were swept up in the mood etc. Critical thinking is an important skill to have, one that unfortunately, too few people have (usually through no fault of their own), but nobody does it every waking moment. Everyone will inevitably have moments of weakness.

Technology exists in reality, it needs to be able to deal with reality as it is, not what it ideally would be.

Wow, you solved mental illness! All we have to do is teach critical thinking!

If everyone had perfect thinking, no one would ever start smoking. Yet we regulate the Hell out of cigarettes. Sometimes we need consumer protection regulations to prevent companies from preying on people's weaknesses.

The base problem is the technology.

Technology exists to serve us. If it murders us, even if we tell it to, it is the problem.

Speaking as someone who has major depressive disorder, we are slaves to the hormones in our brains. You can't think your way out of a broken emotional response. You either ride it out and live long enough to get on medication, or you don't. It's just as serious, and as deadly, as diabetes or heart failure in some people.

Like avoiding sugar when you are diabetic, people with severe mental illnesses should avoid chatbots. Unfortunately, neither sugar nor chatbots are regulated, because both are subtly addictive to a normal person and deadly to an ill person.

Everybody's critical thinking has a vulnerability. People with college degrees fall for cons more often, scammers love doctors and engineers.

Some people get disgusted when a machine kisses their ass, other people are repelled. I'm in the latter category for whatever reason (I'm completely helpless before short dommy women, so I guess that's the trade-off).

I think that basic thing, when GPT says "great point!", whether that is a positive experience for the recipient, determines more about their risk of AI psychosis than anything else.

Old men seem particularly vulnerable to flattery attached to a young woman's voice.