> Psychosis is the term for a collection of symptoms that happen when a person has trouble telling the difference between what’s real and what’s not[0]
For many seemingly intelligent, rational, competent humans AI has become a layer between them and reality that has absolutely sabotaged their ability to know what is real.
[0] https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/23012-psychos...
For everyone else, that term is being applied with disingenuous levels of incompetence.
Eveyone has things that they don't know the answer to. There are also plenty of things that an individual is wrong about. There is a fundimental differsnce between being wrong about something and being delusional.
>AI has become a layer between them and reality that has absolutely sabotaged their ability to know what is real.
You could say much the same about adgenda driven media coverage on any given topic. That can lead a rational person to believe untrue things. The distinction is that, given that perspective, it is reasonable to believe those untrue things.
If you decade everyone who firmly believes untrue things to be psychotic you would have to apply that to everyone who doesn't share your religious views.
Then the boss-man bought a minty-new Senco 650 air nailer for me to use.
At first, I could take it or leave it. After all, I was proud at the skill I gained in driving nails with a hammer, and the ways my muscles seemed to automatically steer the nail straight into a board without missing a beat even if things started going sideways.
But the air nailer sure was faster. And it only had one job, but it did that job fantastically. I started using it more and more.
Things very quickly got to the point where I was organizing my work to maximize my use of that new tool, which is to say: The tool began to have a role in controlling my actions.
It even began to control my emotions; I felt better and more accomplished after a day of using that tool than I did when I couldn't.
And this control accelerated: When the tool didn't work today or we ran out of the special coils of nails it used, then my focus didn't shift back to swinging a hammer. It instead shifted towards fixing the tool or finding more nails to feed into it.
The more I used it, the more powerless I was to avoid it. As time moved on, I got worse at swinging a hammer and increasingly dependent upon that air nailer.
(That's a true story. If I understand what addiction is, then I think I just described an addiction to an air nailer.)
And I wonder how many CEOs believe these LLMs are truly sentient and truly friendly and supportive.
