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[-] axont@hexbear.net 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Is there a non-ableist way of saying this? I feel like anyone driven to a fracture in reality specifically because of AI chatbots is a fucking idiot. Like not in a disability way, I mean they're a complete fucking fool who has limited experience with the world outside of the confines of their own ass.

I don't know if I'm just being ableist but it's all I can think of. The computer isn't talking to you, it's a speak and spell. Imagine a person treating a furby like it's alive or it has any insight whatsoever. Imagine someone with one of those spinny talking toys that tells you what sounds the farm animals make and they think it makes them an expert agricultural scientist. Like you'd have to be a dipshit, right?

[-] fox@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago

It is ableist. People falling to AI-induced delusion are already on a thin edge well before the machine that agrees paranoia is justified comes into play. LLMs are hazardous to those using them as therapists at the best of times because the things give the impression of being human while never ever disagreeing or pushing back.

[-] axont@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah you're probably right. We already have a mental health crisis and the AI is just a piece of it. I can't imagine a healthy person believing the LLM has anything meaningful to say unless they have no idea what an LLM is.

[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I will go out on a limb here as someone who has been diagnosed with 'unclassified impulse control issues' (I didn't really know how to keep my mouth shut and emotions in check), but is now just considered 'abnormal but we trust you to medicate yourself properly' which is a weird place to be in, while there may be an element of ableism in there, a large part of it comes from the fact that these people are on the very low end of the spectrum of their anxiety disorders and yet have found a way through self-medication to trigger and intensify it in themselves.

If they were higher on the spectrum with it, it likely would have triggered earlier, and they would be more self-conscious from having to deal with it when they were younger. This is, of course, assuming they had access to mental health care at all. The fact of the matter is that they are absolutely correct to be paranoid. We are being passively observed, usually illegally, and our data is then used to feed us content and products all the time, tapping into our greatest insecurities and FOMO to do so. Most anxiety-ridden people I know are anxiety-ridden because they have full understanding of this at all times and it absolutely paralyzes them, with the most common one I have personally witnessed being someone having a literal mental breakdown over choice and calorie anxiety from a fast food menu. Which they are correct to be anxious over because too much of that stuff is definitely bad for you. For myself, massive anxiety hits whenever I enter a big city, because it suddenly dawns on me that there are hundreds of thousands, of not millions of people living there, most of whom will never be aware of me nor I of them.

In this way, this kind of LLM induced anxiety is both stupid in its creation and ableist in not having sympathy despite the stupidity of it. TLDR: It can be both.

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