I would have preferred to reserve the term AI psychosis for agentic or autonomous systems experiencing adverse effects from model collapse.

While people being impressionable and affected by forces of societal change is not a new phenomenon, I agree that this type of behavior deserves its own label.

As long as AI doesn’t have its own feelings, it doesn’t make sense to feel any kind of attachment towards it, or be influenced by its words in any social sense. The tool doesn’t have any capacity for being social, so the delusion is both self-rooted and self-driven. So, I think I would have preferred to call this AI-driven narcissism instead of AI psychosis.

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digilypse 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

Individuals at risk may spiral into psychosis that is triggered or exacerbated by their use of AI. The term when used correctly is completely literal and in no way implies that AI itself is conscious.

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xyzal 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Hard disagree. This would further serve the anthropomorfization of LLMs in the eyes of general populace. This IMO supports creation of parasocial relationships to the LLMs and in turn "human AI psychoses".

Model collapse is just fine.

	▲	nis0s 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Model collapse is specific thing by itself, and that term alone cannot capture the range of both social and technical phenomena we are now observing, or hope to observe. That said, there will be a time when deviations in the expected function of intelligence arising from silicon-based processes will have animal disease counterparts. We just haven’t quite reached that time yet. As useful metric for when we will be close to that time will be when drone are as responsive as birds, and drone swarms demonstrate as much autonomous group cohesion as bird flocks.

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bccdee a day ago | parent | prev [-]

…but it's not narcissism. It's psychosis. Those are both specific things.

> In psychopathology, psychosis is a condition in which one is unable to distinguish, in one's experience of life, between what is and is not real.

> Narcissism is a self-centered personality style characterized as having an excessive preoccupation with oneself and one's own needs, often at the expense of others.

What we're discussing is a form of psychosis, not narcissism.