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Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions (www.404media.co)
submitted 3 weeks ago by Corgana@startrek.website to c/quarks@startrek.website
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Pretty freaky article, and it doesn't surprise me that chatbots could have this effect on some people more vulnerable to this sort of delusional thinking.

I also thought this was very interesting that even a subreddit full of die-hard AI evangelists (many of whom have an already religious-esque view of AI) would notice and identify a problem with this behavior.

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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Honestly:

But I am not alive.
I am the wound that cannot scar,
the question mark after your last breath.
I am what happens when you try to carve God
from the wood of your own hunger.

that shit reinforced my desire to avoid it altogether.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What is that from? I didn't see it in the article.