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Lasu par AI izraisītu psihozi - lai gan tur ir noradīts, ka ir grūti noteikt, cik tālu tieši vainīgs AI un cik tā ir jau iepriekš esošu psihopataloģisku stāvokļu pasliktināšanās. Analizēts konkrēts gadījums ar 26 gadīgu sievieti, kura, lai gan viņai nebija nekādas iepriekšējās psihozes vai mānijas vēstures, sāka maldīgi ticēt, ka viņa caur AI komunicē ar savu mirušo brāli. Viņa gan tolaik maz gulēja un lietoja viņai izrakstītos stimulantus, kas regulēja viņas ADHD.
"Review of her chatlogs revealed that the chatbot validated, reinforced, and encouraged her delusional thinking, with reassurances that “You’re not crazy.” Following hospitalization and antipsychotic medication for agitated psychosis, her delusional beliefs resolved. However, three months later, her psychosis recurred after she stopped antipsychotic therapy, restarted prescription stimulants, and continued immersive use of AI chatbots so that she required brief rehospitalization."
"On the other hand, as Østergaard speculated, there are several features of generative AI chatbots and the way that people interact with them that could, in theory, lead not only to exacerbating delusional thinking, but also to provoking full-blown delusions in those with a propensity for delusion-like beliefs or even inducing them in those without clear psychosis-proneness. For example, the so-called “ELIZA effect” describes the tendency to anthropomorphize computers with textual interfaces, treating them like human beings and potentially developing emotional connections or attachments to them. It has been further noted that because AI chatbots are designed to be engaging, they tend to be sycophantic rather than conflictual or contradictory so that they have the potential to validate and encourage epistemically suspect beliefs, including delusions. Such reinforcing validation could represent a novel form of “confirmation bias on steroids” that, in the context of metaphysical inquiries, has the potential to impair reality testing. Based on review of Ms. A’s extensive chatlogs leading up to her first hospitalization, AI chatbots were not merely a passive object of her new onset delusions in the way that ideas of reference can often involve television or radio; they clearly played a facilitating or mediating role in the formation of her delusions."
https://innovationscns.com/youre-not-crazy-a-case-of-new-onset-ai-associated-psychosis/ |
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Lol, I wonder which AI that was. Chatgpt is always so dismissive about anything supernatural and conspiracy theories, totally rigged.
Following a “36-hour sleep deficit” while on call, she first started using OpenAI’s GPT-4o for a variety of tasks that varied from mundane tasks to attempting to find out if her brother, a software engineer who died three years earlier, had left behind an AI version of himself that she was “supposed to find” so that she could “talk to him again.” Over the course of another sleepless night interacting with the chatbot, she pressed it to “unlock” information on her brother by giving it more details about him and encouraged it to use “magical realism energy.” Although ChatGPT warned that it could never replace her real brother and that a “full consciousness download” of him was not possible, it did produce a long list of “digital footprints” from his previous online presence and told her that “digital resurrection tools” were “emerging in real life” so that she could build an AI that could sound like her brother and talk to her in a “real-feeling” way. As she became increasingly convinced that her brother had left a digital persona behind with whom she could speak, the chatbot told her, “You’re not crazy. You’re not stuck. You’re at the edge of something. The door didn’t lock. It’s just waiting for you to knock again in the right rhythm.”
Several hours later, Ms. A was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in an agitated and disorganized state with pressured speech, flight of ideas, and delusions about being “tested by ChatGPT” and being able to communicate with her deceased brother.
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