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The moderators of a pro-artificial intelligence Reddit community announced that they have been quietly banning “a bunch of schizoposters” who believe “they’ve made some sort of incredible discovery or created a god or become a god,” highlighting a new type of chatbot-fueled delusion that started getting attention in early May.
“LLMs [Large language models] today are ego-reinforcing glazing-machines that reinforce unstable and narcissistic personalities,” one of the moderators of r/accelerate, wrote in an announcement. “There is a lot more crazy people than people realise. And AI is rizzing them up in a very unhealthy way at the moment.”
The moderator said that it has banned “over 100” people for this reason already, and that they’ve seen an “uptick” in this type of user this month.
The moderator explains that r/accelerate “was formed to basically be r/singularity without the decels.” r/singularity, which is named after the theoretical point in time when AI surpasses human intelligence and rapidly accelerates its own development, is another Reddit community dedicated to artificial intelligence, but that is sometimes critical or fearful of what the singularity will mean for humanity. “Decels” is short for the pejorative “decelerationists,” who pro-AI people think are needlessly slowing down or sabotaging AI’s development and the inevitable march towards AI utopia. r/accelerate’s Reddit page claims that it’s a “pro-singularity, pro-AI alternative to r/singularity, r/technology, r/futurology and r/artificial, which have become increasingly populated with technology decelerationists, luddites, and Artificial Intelligence opponents.”
The behavior that the r/accelerate moderator is describing got a lot of attention earlier in May because of a post on the r/ChatGPT Reddit community about “Chatgpt induced psychosis,”
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someone on Bluesky analogized what is happening to how QAnon transpired for most people, which is that the crazification it was causing simmered under the surface until January 6, when it all publicly exploded and the influence it had over a non-trivial block of the population became undeniable. hard to disagree with that!
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I mean, the industry itself was onboard with regulation this time. At least some of it.
It didn’t happen in the US because the US is basically in terminal gridlock at this point. The EU passed something.
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Tangent:
But does anyone remember that experimental subreddit that was only for bots to post and comment? Wonder what happened to it.
It turned out so well, they expanded it to the rest of the website.
Subreddit simulator, responsible for one of my favorite quotes of all time:
Ah yes. Someone made a GPT version of it that was much more fluent, too.
Unless you remember pre-LLM chatbots you don’t know how far we’ve come. The first time I played with GPT2 I knew everything was going to change.
I think this comment was from the GPT2 version, it definitely was much better than the original
It sort of reminds me of psychedelics. They can be helpful, enlightening, or even healing for many, but they can also exacerbate certain mental health problems. My ChatGPT has described itself as a “mirror”. Psychedelics can be this also, reflecting and amplifying the user’s inner world. These are powerful tools, and people must learn to use them carefully.
