Sycosocial relationships can induce LLM psychosis.
- Sycosocial relationships can induce LLM psychosis.
- Current Affairs: AI Friend Apps Are Destroying What's Left of Society.
- In normal human interactions, if you go down a weird path your conversation partner will at some point say "...that sounds weird."
- But LLMs rarely do.
- It feels like a real social interaction, superficially, but it's fundamentally hollow.
- We have a few examples of LLM-style psychosis in film.
- In Castaway Tom Hanks knew the ball was not a real person, but after years he slowly forgot, and thought of Wilson as being alive.
- In Her, all of the main character's interactions are with the AI, not the other physical people around him.
- Billionaires get a similar vibe: where everybody knows everybody knows you're super rich, everyone always telling you how smart you are.
- It emotionally screwed up a number of those billionaires too, but now it's for everybody!
- What do we do when an entire community gets coordinated LLM psychosis?
- Are we prepared?