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AI chatbots linked to psychological harm, addiction and delusions, Study finds
cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1432467/ai-chatbots-linked-to-psychological-harm-addiction-and-delusions-study-finds
news.northeastern.edu/2026/09/28/ai-chatbots-psychological-harm-mental-health/
AI-induced psychosis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-induced_psychosis
It’s really easy to get drawn into the delusion. I once spent a Sunday afternoon doings stock picks for the coming year with google gemini. After several hours I decided to independently verify the answers it was giving. EVERY SINGLE THING IT SAID WAS A LIE!!!
I always thought of myself as smart and cynical. But that grift bruised my ego more than anything else.
Here is a good study of how wrong they can be and the results are horrific. Not surprisingly, google gemini is almost never right.
Replying to @bitteroldcoot@piefed.social
I gave it a try on a hobby project without double checking. I bought some parts I didn’t need. Good thing it was only about $20.
In hindsight a good portion of the diagrams I asked for were complete non-sense, but I wrote it off as poor image generation than having zero actual comprehension. It was trying to generate designs that didn’t exist because nobody does it that way. I later figured out after looking at diagrams from research papers where students built much simpler designs.