I think the issue is that people don’t understand how they work.
At their core they’re pattern recognition machines. The more you use it, the more it mirrors your own patterns. You get out what you put in - sometimes without realizing they are your words. If I tell ChatGPT that it feels like “future technology” enough it will start to tell me that it’s from the future.
The wide availability of these tools to people that don’t fully understand them is causing a mental health crisis.