A small number of people are driven insane by books, films, artwork, even music. The same is true of LLMs—a particularly impressionable and already vulnerable cohort are badly affected by AI outputs. But this is a tiny minority—most healthy people are perfectly capable of using frontier LLMs for hours every day without ill effects.
Also, I bet most people who temporarily lose their grip on reality from contact with LLMs return to a completely normal state pretty quickly. I think most such cases are LLM helping to induce temporary hypomania rather than a permanent psychotic condition.
How do you know the rates are similar? (And it’s not e.g. like fentanyl, which in some ways resembles other opiates but is much more addictive and destructive on average)
A small number of people are driven insane by books, films, artwork, even music. The same is true of LLMs—a particularly impressionable and already vulnerable cohort are badly affected by AI outputs. But this is a tiny minority—most healthy people are perfectly capable of using frontier LLMs for hours every day without ill effects.
Also, I bet most people who temporarily lose their grip on reality from contact with LLMs return to a completely normal state pretty quickly. I think most such cases are LLM helping to induce temporary hypomania rather than a permanent psychotic condition.
How do you know the rates are similar? (And it’s not e.g. like fentanyl, which in some ways resembles other opiates but is much more addictive and destructive on average)