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something bleak about the chatgpt subreddit is that occasionally people will bring up the issue of mental illness intersecting with LLMs i.e. intensifying delusions / conspiratorial thinking / paranoia / feelings of grandiosity by basically just mirroring the user's language and philosophy. and the constant refrain is, "these are people who already had these problems, chatgpt didn't give them mental illness, *and it would have happened anyway*"

and we can agree with the first part of that statement, in that talking to a LLM isn't going to completely rewrite your neurochemistry - it's not going to make you think completely wild and new things that you didnt already have some kind of tendency towards.

but. it's an especially shitty attitude to have, that people with paranoia / schizotypal disorders were "a lost cause anyway" and we aren't acknowledging how utterly novel this kind of technology is - it's a thing that people with these conditions have never had access to before, that is marketed specifically as a tool to promote thinking, in a way that can absolutely override or reverse years of progress people have had in managing their conditions

like at best, we've had access to chatbots since the early 00s that would make snarky jokes and frequently answer "I'm sorry I don't understand what you're asking" - and people on r/ChatGPT will bring up these bots as a kind of "gotcha" regardless - but nothing like chatgpt has ever existed before!!! that's the entire point, it's a novel technology that is climbing toward ubiquity - everyone and their mother is starting to use chatgpt now in a way other chat programs never were

and if someone in the psychological sciences can verify here: i'm aware that there is a portion of the population that is within 1-2 degrees of someone with a psychotic disorder, with a substantial genetic component, who (in previous decades) never went on to develop psychosis. they would have typically gone their whole lives just navigating around that vulnerability, unaware or not, most of them never triggering it, because the conditions (environmental, cultural, familial) never transpired. some might have stumbled into a religious group or fringe community that then activated that predisposition, but it was something that people had to search out and find, specifically interacting with people, literature, forums, etc that enabled these delusions.

LLMs are at-home ready to use non-persons that are perpetually available 24 hours a day to repeat back to a user exactly what they want to hear! it's free! you don't have to leave your house. you don't have to sit face to face with another person who can emotionally process what you're saying. you will not be recommended resources for your delusions. you can have a never-ending conversation with a computer that 100% agrees that you are the messiah.

if people aren't concerned about this shit as far as it affects the lives of mentally ill and unknowingly susceptible people, and they go on accepting them as collateral losses for this "great technological progress," then we're fucked. sorry. but we are.

puppy gromit

me and my homies support real artists who put their passion into their pieces instead of a machine who rips off the hard work of talented peeps

How is this still relevant after the direct FOCUSED PURELY ON MARIO KART?????

The real reason why they're not showing us Rainbow Road in Mario Kart World is because Rainbow Road will be playable

AMPHIBIA GRAPHIC NOVEL ANNOUNCED WE'RE SO FUCKING BACK

Yeah, no, RFK Jr scares the crap out of me

I mean, seriously, this is dangerous stuff

the Guardian

RFK’s statements prove autistic people and their families everywhere should fear Trump and his allies | John Harris

The idea that autism is some aberration that can be cured is typical of a movement that celebrates simplistic thinking and loathes human dif

Distracted! - Machinot for Nintendo DS - 2009

Thank you for telling us that you have a plan, tumblr user I-suggest-murder. Whatever your plan is- I am totally down for it!

So a white woman was recently caught on camera calling a 5 year old the n-word multiple times at a playground, and then used it a few more times when confronted by an adult. She also said if the 5 YEAR OLD CHILD didn't want to be called the n-word "he should not have been acting like one"

Now she's set up a gofundme FOR ONE MILLION DOLLARS to "protect her family" which has been picked up by the right-wing podcast circuit and has attracted the exact kind people you think. Donating amounts like $1488 and calling bipoc "savages" and "animals", straight up reciting the 14 words, and quoting MLK Jr as a backhanded justification.

Remember a time when saying a racial slur even in the past was ground for at the very least social scorn? Now people like this feel emboldened. I feel like it's only going to get worse.

This was on the same day that the Trump administration ended school desegregation in Louisiana

Then there’s the Ames. Which are not as notable as Adam’s or Kennedy’s. Couldn’t tell ya much about them aside from they got rich off shovels, and got involved in politics

Adams Political Family or Kennedy Political Family? There is a correct answer btw/sil

I mean, the Kennedy's had some good eggs amongst the rotten bunch, but RFK Jr is giving them a run for their fucking money. Been a while since I have had anything top of mind about the Adams at all, but they did have that whole slavery thing going on.

So, neither. All politician's suck and have some shady shit going on (understatement), and even the best of them are mid at their peak.

yhis is gonna happen in chapter 4 mark my words