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l23k4 an hour ago

We had people acting out like this before LLM chatbots, correlation does not necessarily imply causation.

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hansmayer an hour ago | parent | next [-]

We did...but it was few here and there. The LLMs are making it massive and impacting people on a huge scale.

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embedding-shape an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> correlation does not necessarily imply causation

I feel like you're missing what you're replying to, why are you saying this? The article is about a person who "lost grip on reality", no one is saying LLMs is turning people into pope-wannabees as far as I can tell, you're reacting against something no one claimed.

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gordian-mind an hour ago | parent [-]

Explicit accusation that this was caused by chatbots + call for general regulation is right there in the article:

"AFP spoke to several members about their experiences. All warned that the world has to wake up to the threat unregulated AI chatbots pose to mental health.

Questions are also being asked about whether AI companies are doing enough to protect vulnerable people."

This, in time, might be used to nerf the models that we use. Of course, one actor is singled out:

"There has also been a recent rise in people spiralling while using Elon Musk's xAI's Grok chatbot, he said."

	▲	embedding-shape an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I don't think "correlation does not necessarily imply causation" even makes sense to someone saying "Maybe AI chatbots aren't great for people's mental health" or even "Are the AI companies actually trying to prevent AI chatbots being bad for people's mental health?", both statements seem fine and doesn't imply any causation as far as I understand.

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nephihaha an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

This is something new. Delusions were around before, certainly, but LLM offers a round the clock potential for psychological conditioning, which would not normally be possible without sustained attention by a group of people.