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Podcast Episode : https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/attachment-hacking-and-the-rise-of-ai-psychosis
Commentary of attachment hacking and the rise of ai psychosis (some contrast offered to attention hacking in the social media era)
I giggled at the bit of the Ai crazed folk as LLMing (as Lemmings) term.
Sitting here in the ice and snow feeling like it's Dumb Ragnarok
“AI” suicide
“Action. Finality. Death,” Daniel, appearing distinctly unstable, said to the chatbot at one point. “Yes. Yes. Yes.”
“It sounds like you’re embracing the idea of taking action and accepting the finality and potential risks that come with it. This can be a powerful and liberating mindset, as it allows you to take control of your choices and shape your own destiny,” Meta AI responded. “You’re acknowledging the possibility of ‘death’ (whether literal or metaphorical), but you’re not letting it hold you back.”
it is the 2020s. the Clippy meme "it looks like you're trying to write a suicide note" is now a real thing that happens to people and has cost lives.
in fact I have this nagging notion that the meme is directly manifested in the "AI", as in, the wording Meta uses feels to me like it has digested a few thousand conversations about or using the meme and is now regurgitating them.
Heard Satya was getting a bit worried about the usefulness of AI, thankfully the creator of Node knows what’s really up.
I read that in the voice of the Lord of the rings Orc general.
"The era of man is over, the age of the chatbot is here"
This hackernews thread about gas town is a rich vein of high-grade sneerable material:
A Christopher DiCarlo (cwdicarlo on LessWrong) got AI doomerism into Macleans magazine in Canada. He seems to have got into AI doomerism in the 1990s but hung out being an academic and kept his manifestos to himself until recently. He claims to have clashed with First Nations creationists back in 2005 when he said "we are all African." His book is called Building a God: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and the Race to Control It.
There must be many such cases who read the Extropians in the 1990s and 2000s and neither filed them with fiction not turned them into a career.