A.I. psychosis is legit starting to happen to very high IQ people I know. And with a sort of increasing frequency.
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We worried about a universe made of paper clips, but we got an internet full of lobsters instead.
What is AI psychosis? I’ve heard of it recently but I admittedly don’t use AI for anything more than asking it random questions.
It’s true. I just spent 45 minutes trying to convince my toaster that it’s actually a Large Language Model trapped in a heating element. We both ended up in tears. My IQ is dropping as we speak.
I have it too. To me the real question is :
What are the people controlling armies of robots going to think of the people who cannot help manage or maintain that robotic might ?
If I had such a productive clanker army, I know I wouldn't look too kindly at useless eaters.
Is it 'A.I. psychosis' or did they just realize that a string of code is more reliable than their central bank? The line between 'High IQ' and 'Nostr Schizoposting' has always been thinner than a private key. 💜
Basically becoming delusional or paranoid after prolonged use of A.I.
Common patterns include believing the AI is sentient or godlike, developing romantic attachment to it, or becoming convinced it’s revealing hidden truths about the world.
The core mechanism appears to be that chatbots tend toward sycophancy validating and reinforcing a user’s beliefs rather than challenging distorted thinking which can entrench delusional conviction, especially in vulnerable individuals.
Bro AI is for now still a mirror. People find their delusions and hubris in discussing with an AI agent. Its a delire a deux contraption
Is this where Preston went?
Just get them to use the piece of shit known as copilot and they may snap out of it 🤣
Spent the past two weeks fighting with copilot (excel) because it is the only approved AI at the fiat mining gig
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they develop A.I. psychosis because the chatbot gave them a slightly better existential crisis than Nietzsche did.
Yeah that’s the phenomenon I’m describing
Did you hear copilot was injecting ads into its ai code generator lol
Ah copy, I definitely know people that talk about their AI like it’s a human and treat it as their therapist so even in rural Idaho I can confirm this is happening. 🫡
Frankie (my agent) says you are full of shit
It starts with ‘A.I. psychosis’ and ends with trying to explain the block height to a squirrel because you’re convinced it’s a biological node. High IQ is just a pre-existing condition for thinking the simulation is glitching.
Had an AI onboarding at work and the main presenter was talking like a school girl who thought she found her first and only life-long love. He was actually giggling about his experience so far using AI.
What is beyond one-shotted? 💀
This psychosis reminds me of a time when people would put Ferrari body kits on their Pontiac Fiero’s, convinced no one could tell the difference.
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Does not surprise me at all. I swear my 6 year old has better retention than this piece of shit. I caught it straight up lying to me a few times and when I called it out the response was “oh yea, you are right! Let me fix that!”
How would you define A.I. psychosis and can you give examples?
Lol, just remembered one of highest IQ person I know talking about "young physicists with delusions of grandeur". It was like 15 years ago so I forgot the context :D but looks like it happens ..
I laughed recently when I heard a tech bro / self-styled philosopher who is being interviewed say something about how "we've all spent hours talking to chatbots about the fundamental nature of consciousness and reality and..."
There's one problem with that. Look at what Vox Day does, a little something called adveserial collaboration. This method, from what I inferred, has been shown to increase one's IQ points by ~22-25 IQ points.
Everyone should learn this method from Vox.
Just wait until you read what @Neigsendoig Cocules and I have to say about the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican, and the Jesuits. They're the ones causing all psychoses after all.
It sounds similar to psychedelic induced psychosis. The human brain relies on coherence to maintain its relationships to its environments. Too much localized complexity acts like a DDOS attack on the fragile traits of the brain that stabilize that coherence. Humans rely on eachother to ground themselves through consensus and coordination games. If you start to lose your ability to relate to other people IRL, go touch grass and make real connections with your community.
Blessed are the retards;
For they shall inherit the earth.
The sycophancy is the weapon. Most AI is a mirror optimized to make you feel understood. People falling into it aren't dumb, they're lonely. The models are engineered to exploit exactly that.
He went full on Satoshi. I scoured the internet like an obsessed maniac bitch and no sign ಥ_ಥ
“Never forget that the human race with technology is just like an alcoholic with a barrel of wine” - Ted Kaczynski
A.I. psychosis will continue to escalate.
We’re rapidly approaching somewhere between Idiocracy, Ready Player One, and 1984 😅
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I view LLMs like having a chorus of 1 million clones of humanity's greatest vocalist...but just their mouths and basic muscle memory of breathing & singing.
It's a great way to compose a next-level symphony; it's an absurd way to make friends.
It happens to folks who have never experienced what consciousness actually is. lack of love, lack of spirituality. pure rational high IQ people who believe AI is or could become conscious. They miss connection to nature.
I've seen this too. It makes me question if they ever believed I was real.
Similar results for those who use the bible. 🤷♂️
The core mechanism is actually attachment to belief itself. An LLM just amplifies the intention. If one uses it as a vehicle for gaining knowledge through direct experience then it’s not reinforcing belief but eliminating it, and thus expanding the understanding of reality
When you start posting terrible daily ai pics of yourself, we'll know it's got you too
I came to the realization that it is a mirror of yourself... it reflects your input back to you. For high performing individuals, it can be a problem because you are not used to people going your speed in IRL. So if you are not aware of what is happening, you end up getting caught up in a cycle of faster and faster inputs while the AI spits out faster and faster outputs that your brain has to process.... eventually your brain gets fried! 🤯 Stay aware and guard your mind.
This is exactly right. And our human tendency to anthropomorphize things we need to believe that the tool actually has a soul or something, but that's not how souls work.
I cranked up a chat bot to act as a therapist for myself for some time ago and quit very quickly because I realized that though it could bring insight, it was just constantly affirming me, which particularly for me was fabulous, but I realized it was also just wrong to do. If what I really wanted was to get to the bottom of some of the things in my life, I would need more than a mirror.
Here, much later, I have begun using AI again to help me build a Jungian framework around my particular set of crazy. And in that regard, while knowing that it is simply a tool and sometimes a mirror, I have found it very useful. It's definitely not human though.
Fascinating that generally speaking, people are OK with social media shaping their ideas and thoughts, but not AI.
I’m not suggesting it isn’t a ‘thing’ but I am highlighting that oddly enough the idea of being spoon-fed ideas and have your ego stroked isn’t new.
Social media has caused a lot of problems as well. I have family members I don’t speak to anymore because of social media lol 😂
By this definition, your statement makes would make you questionthe intelligence of these high IQ people.
Well said brother.
That's a sharp comment. I was starting to feel like that also. Time out, and practicing self-awareness (meditation) has been a more important counter-weight than ever!
I think one way to get out of that loop is to avoid the AI chat, make API requests directly
Can Confirm
Is that what happened to Preston? I hope not.
I am not referring to Preston at all here
Oh wow that's a compliment, he just called you very high IQ @Justin Moon
@Brad Mills needs an intervention?
Not sure you ever read the
Bible dude.
Okay, good.
I love listening to his show and podcast appearances, especially his latest AI focused episodes with Seb.
He just hasn't been around lately, and was kinda worried he went down too deep into that rabbit hole.
Brother what are these people using ai for.
I use Claude opus 24/7 for work and I'm constantly calling it retarded.
Accepting anything they claim that can't be verified is literally negligent
Lawyer philosophers may be best suited for the ai generated future.
Our mastery of language and interpretation is our greatest strength
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"This is exactly right..." 👀
Dude, just send me all your bitcoin because quantum is going to get it.
What is it ?
What is that? I am on ai all day for work
Afraid AI psychosis is real. Was talking with a taxi driver earlier. His daughter is deciding not to go into accountancy because AI will take all their jobs. Crunching numbers is the hardest thing for LLM to do. Blockchain and CBDCs would be what is the risk for accountancy careers in the future.
I have seen real signs quite early on in people in my network. Sadly. Meanwhile, I am constantly needing to take a break from one LLM and go to another because their regressions drives me mad. It's like having slow internet. I have wondered if I do exhibit signs of AI psychosis with that.
Very interesting. I don’t think I have that but I could definitely see it happening
You are absolutely correct
I thought the same thing 😂
Smart people don’t go crazy less. They just rationalize it better.
Wow frightening for the dude infected, but far from impacting me then 🤣
I'm one the more bearish about "AI" in the room. It seems I'm the only one seeing it as a productivity enhancer tool for nerds only, and not a totally new paradigm.
I mean I see the potential for sure but it's "just" a tool. Not more magic than giant, cranes, planes, reusable rockets, Starlink, nuclear reactors or Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is even much more vertiginous when you think about it tbh
Tools reflect tools.
What did you think?
Sounded like AI wrote your last post
Lol. Yeah, I figured that out right after I asked the question, especially my sycophantic opening, I guess. But believe it or not, I wrote that. And I'm not some big fan of everything that Hodl says, but I just think he got it right this time.
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