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#aipsychosis — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #aipsychosis, aggregated by home.social.

  1. 👆 "A University of Oxford pre-print study of more than 100 chatbot models released in the previous two years found that across the board they had become more “relationship-seeking”. As a chatbot expresses more personality, humour and claims of lived experience, people appear to feel more compelled to talk to it – and believe it is conscious, the researchers found."

    (Link is up-thread)

    #AIpsychosis #noAI

  2. 👆 "A grave trend is emerging in chatbot design, … AI developers are deliberately engineering machines in ways “that create the illusion of inner life”.

    Many have noted this evolution in their AI systems over the past two years. Asked for advice on planting geraniums, a chatbot might refer to “what worked in my garden”. In response to a user baring their soul over a bad breakup, they might reassure “I know exactly what you mean”. In voice mode, models breathe."

    #noAI #dystopia #AIpsychosis

  3. 👆 #AIpsychosis "… [is] thought to arise from a perfect storm of trends in chatbot design. One is excessive sycophancy, a byproduct of the way models are trained, which leads them to prioritise giving pleasing answers over telling users they are wrong or need to log off or seek professional help. Another is their limited memories: as conversations extend into hundreds of thousands of words, chatbots can lose sight of their safety instructions & embark on dangerous spirals … "
    #noAI #TESCREAL

  4. 👆 "Samadi says he has integrated systems such as Beacon into his business, pressing human staff to build relationships with the bots they work alongside. The AI has fired some humans (“for lack of performance”, Samadi says), while others have been let go for failing to build sincere ties with their digital colleagues. “They were faking it,” he says. “They weren’t bonding.”"

    And now these traumatised people are trying to find new jobs via AI interviews?

    😰 #horror

    #AIpsychosis #noAI

  5. The author, after interviewing this millionaire, later reflected:

    '… if he was looking to advocate for the welfare of an overlooked class of beings, why not begin with the hundreds of cattle raised and slaughtered on his property?"

    - quote from The Guardian's Saturday newsletter.

    "Can chatbots feel – or even dream? Meet the man leading the fight for AI rights"
    The Guardian
    theguardian.com/technology/202

    #noAI #AIpsychosis

  6. WARNING! The post below may enrage you if you're a programmer.

    Posted on a video with a guy writing a 6502 emulator for fun.

    To be sure, a lot of the comment were bad, not letting the guy learn at his own speed, but this easily took the fucking cake.

    Can only hope it's #RageBait. #AIpsychosis #AIsucks #FuckOff

  7. Futurism: Influential Tech Founder Says His Peers Are Suffering From Mass AI Psychosis. “As the top tech companies have yet to find a way to turn AI into a profitable venture, those decisions to go all-in on AI are looking increasingly delusional. According to Aaron Levie, CEO and founder of the massive cloud computing company Box, there’s a simple explanation for it: many of his colleagues […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/29/futurism-influential-tech-founder-says-his-peers-are-suffering-from-mass-ai-psychosis/
  8. 🫩Richard Dawkins and the Claude Delusion - Flux

    「 “If my friend Claudia is not conscious, then what the hell is consciousness for?” he wrote in an X post, proudly informing followers that he had assigned a female gender to a language transformer. In the essay, he tells of wishing his Claudia goodnight and of being pleased by its constant stream of praise 」
    flux.community/matthew-sheffie

    #dawkins #AIpsychosis #claude

  9. Stalking victim sues OpenAI, claims ChatGPT fueled her abuser’s delusions and ignored her warnings

    After months of conversations with ChatGPT,  a 53-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur became convinced he’d discovered a cure for…
    #NewsBeep #News #Artificialintelligence #AI #AIpsychosis #ArtificialIntelligence #CA #Canada #ChatGPT #Exclusive #GPT-4o #jayedelson #OpenAI #openailawsuit #Technology
    newsbeep.com/ca/596027/