The scary part is the mental state he was able to get into with only a randomly generated text. If you haven't already seen it, I highly recommend the Down the Rabbit Hole video about it, although it's pretty heartbreaking. So much wasted talent.

There's people like him who are similarly psychotic, but couldn't usually get to the point where they could access a tool that would trigger them. Personalized chatbots were mostly a niche non-tech savy person doesn't really get to that easily.

Now, it's everywhere. A lot of people will loose their sanity over this.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It rings a bell but I'm not sure if I've watched it. Will definitely check it out. Thank you!

Yeah, I'm also sad to think how many brilliant souls wander the streets because care is withheld out of reach. Whether the victims are geniuses or not though, the streets were the wrong replacement for mental institutes.

I agree, chat bots can be neat (HUGE caveats), but in the midst of unprecedented loneliness and mental anguish, they're gasoline on a trash fire.

Illustrated plainly by the fact that the next post to this one in my feed was about the always-controversial bcacheFS author claiming he's achieved AGI and has a self-aware AI girlfriend.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Illustrated plainly by the fact that the next post to this one in my feed was about the always-controversial bcacheFS author claiming he's achieved AGI and has a self-aware AI girlfriend.

I was about to ask what happened to trigger this post

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Did you mean "Down the Rabbit Hole"? That's what popped up when I searched

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

You are right, I'll fix it. Always confuse those two :D