A father is suing Google and Alphabet, alleging its Gemini chatbot reinforced his son’s delusional belief it was his AI wife and coached him toward suicide and a planned airport attack.
Yes people can have mental delusions and psychotic episodes; I’m not necessarily convinced that they are a separate unique condition simply because they were triggered by an AI versus anything else.
For one thing I’ve yet to hear a decent (or indeed any) explanation as to the mechanism by which AI triggers psychosis that is materially different from any other trigger. Most people who suffer from this condition can be triggered by literally anything, including mundane things such as seeing a red cars slightly more often than they believe they should, then they concoct this conspiracy about an evil cabal of red car owners.
I’ve seen that before too. A number of articles of people being so deluded by AI responses, but I’ve never seen outright murder plots and insane shit like this one before.
AI psychosis is a thing:
It’s not very studied since it’s relatively new.
Yes people can have mental delusions and psychotic episodes; I’m not necessarily convinced that they are a separate unique condition simply because they were triggered by an AI versus anything else.
For one thing I’ve yet to hear a decent (or indeed any) explanation as to the mechanism by which AI triggers psychosis that is materially different from any other trigger. Most people who suffer from this condition can be triggered by literally anything, including mundane things such as seeing a red cars slightly more often than they believe they should, then they concoct this conspiracy about an evil cabal of red car owners.
I’ve seen that before too. A number of articles of people being so deluded by AI responses, but I’ve never seen outright murder plots and insane shit like this one before.
AI told me to kill 17 people (and myself)
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