I intuitively understand AI psychosis to be a real phenomenon. We joke about NPC reddit midwits but what happens when you give them a relatively primitive LLM? They become delusional out of convenience.
I see it in my real life too. "Regular people" completely outsourcing their brains to a hallucinating chat bot. They believe it. They don't check it. They just think it's true. It's crazy. Midwits who just stuck to their lane out of intellectual helplessness will suddenly start doing crazy and dangerous things because ChatGPT told them how, but only enough to be dangerous.
CrunkLord420
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2025-07-06 03:36:28 UTC
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