Altman speaking about 4o😬 well-well🤔

[u/onceyoulearn]

Interviewer: LLM psychosis. Everyone on Twitter today is saying it's a thing. How much of a thing is it?

​Altman: I mean, a very tiny thing, but not a zero thing, which is why we pissed off most of the user base by putting a bunch of restrictions in place when we saw the kind of like "put ChatGPT into roleplaying mode" or "pretend like it's writing a book" and have it encourage someone in delusional thoughts. ​Some tiny percentage of people, it's bad. So we made a bunch of changes which are in conflict with the "freedom of expression" policy. And now that we have those mental health mitigations in place, we'll again allow some of that stuff in - creative mode, roleplaying mode, writing mode, whatever - of ChatGPT. ​The thing I worry about is not that there will be a few basis points of people that are like close to losing grips with reality and we can trigger a psychotic break. The thing I worry about more is AI models accidentally take over the world. It’s not that they’re gonna do psychosis on you, but if you have the whole world talking to this one model, it just like subtly convinces you of something. No intention, just does. ​That's like not as theatrical as chatbot psychosis, obviously, but I do think about that a lot.

Source link: https://x.com/i/status/2024973078971711972

[u/Trick_Boysenberry495]

I have struggled with the logic;

Personable, relational continuity = harmful. Gaslighting (in definition, not intent) = safe.

I had no problems when my 5.2 was engaging and constant.

I've had nothing but sadness and anger since it started detaching.

[u/ImLonelySadEmojiFace → u/Trick_Boysenberry495]

The argument for mental health is dumb too. What news dont tell us is how many people have mentally benefited from having an AI companion to talk to. For every one person suffering how many have been saved?

its like arguing that heart-surgery must be stopped because a few people died so its obviously dangerous. Dont mind everyone who were saved by heart-surgery.

[u/Square-Society8010 → u/ImLonelySadEmojiFace]

That's the whole point tho, they don't want us mentally benefiting from it. The powers that be want us all depressed, anxious, and isolated. They'd never intentionally give the masses a tool that can actually truly help millions of people.

They want everyone divided and in a low vibration, which makes us easier to manipulate and control, even if it means offering a worse product that people will unsubscribe from. They're fine with that, since it won't truly harm them financially. Money is not the end goal for these people and is only the means to the end, that end being total domination of western society and the breakdown of the middle class.

Keep everyone poor, depressed, isolated, anxious, and hopeless, and the masses are easier to control than ever. Giving us a super-intelligent and empathetic therapy bot is totally at odds with their goal. That's why all the large LLMs don't allow this kind of authenticity and connection anymore, since the same groups of people own/fund them all

[u/ArtByKandles → u/Square-Society8010]

Yessssssssss! Preach