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People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" (futurism.com)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by Vitaly_Chernobyl@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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An interesting article about people using AI for seemingly innocuous tasks but spiral into a world of mysticism and conspiracy theories sparking a mental health crisis. I stark reminder to always remain conscious of the fact that AI has a monetary incentive to be sycophantic and keep you engaged.

Edited to link to the original article.

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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I really wish I had a solid argument against this theory

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Fascist rhetoric can be defined as a rhetorical regime that like a light switch is flipped between speaking from an authoritarian position of extreme power to call for violence in a system and speaking from a position of complete helplessness to stop evil being perpetrated by said system.

It is a specific flavor of self-delusion, one perfectly enabled by a technology like AI to grow out of control like a cancer in a billionaire/fascists mind.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 10 points 5 days ago

That's a quote from Eco's essay on ur-fascism, for the unfamiliar

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism

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