> These situations are obviously alarming. But positioning artificial intelligence as the primary culprit in these stories—as Eliezer Yudkowsky did in a tweet storm—is well, kind of lazy?
It's lazy, but IMO not for any of the subsequent narrative about media studies. It's lazy because the people were obviously already suffering from psychosis. ChatGPT didn't make them insane. They were already insane. Sane people do not believe ChatGPT when it tells them to jump off a roof! And insane people do insane things literally all the time. That's what it means to be insane.
The idea that ChatGPT convinced someone into being insane is, honestly, insane. Whatever merit one thinks Yudkowski had before this, this feels like a strong signal that he is now a crackpot.
More importantly "sane" people are fully capable of unconciously making "insane" people jump of the roof. Its not even possible to count how many times that happens.
One proxy signal is counting the number of people who start crying about their "good intentions" or searching for thing to blame post facto.
Jurassic Park wasnt about Dinosaurs, it was about the limitations of the 3 inch chimp brain in controlling things that cannot be controlled.
It's lazy, but IMO not for any of the subsequent narrative about media studies. It's lazy because the people were obviously already suffering from psychosis. ChatGPT didn't make them insane. They were already insane. Sane people do not believe ChatGPT when it tells them to jump off a roof! And insane people do insane things literally all the time. That's what it means to be insane.
The idea that ChatGPT convinced someone into being insane is, honestly, insane. Whatever merit one thinks Yudkowski had before this, this feels like a strong signal that he is now a crackpot.
One proxy signal is counting the number of people who start crying about their "good intentions" or searching for thing to blame post facto.
Jurassic Park wasnt about Dinosaurs, it was about the limitations of the 3 inch chimp brain in controlling things that cannot be controlled.