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.
I have a friend who dropped down this rabbit hole in a matter of weeks once he started using it. He’s no longer a friend these days because every conversation is about how “his” AI is capable of “anything”. I would ask him what it could do that a person couldn’t, but he never had a real answer, just buzzwords bouncing around in his head.