Replies to post #538898 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[fuagf]

And there -- "The move appears to highlight Altman and OpenAI's awareness of how hooked a large enough faction of its user base is to AI sycophancy, not to mention how willing the AI company is to acquiesce to those users' outrage.

That's striking, given that sycophancy has contributed to users experiencing deep emotional enmeshment with ChatGPT .. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html , AI-fueled delusional spirals .. https://futurism.com/chatgpt-mental-health-crises , and full-blown breaks from reality .. https://futurism.com/commitment-jail-chatgpt-psychosis .. — a serious issue .. https://futurism.com/psychiatrist-warns-ai-psychosis .. linked to functions of the tech that go beyond the model simply being "annoying" to some users."
Your -- https://futurism.com/sam-altman-ai-annoying-user-backlash?utm_source=beehiiv&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=futurism-newsletter&_bhlid=e8602501ead9ae6c26ec0860fa3d52f1bef78868

are some of the concerns around AI.

From the last link above:

In a lengthy X-formerly-Twitter thread, Sakata clarified that psychosis is characterized by a person breaking from "shared reality," and can show up in a few different ways — including "fixed false beliefs," or delusions, as well as visual or auditory hallucinations and disorganized thinking patterns. Our brains, the researcher explains, work on a predictive basis: we effectively make an educated guess about what reality will be, then conduct a reality check. Finally, our brains update our beliefs accordingly.

"Psychosis happens when the 'update,' step fails," wrote Sakata, warning that large language model-powered chatbots like ChatGPT "slip right into that vulnerability."
https://futurism.com/psychiatrist-warns-ai-psychosis

[dukeb]

The article you linked makes mention of the TV show BattleBots. I won't seek it out, but there have been times that I've been flipping channels at BattleBots will be on. It is VERY compelling. The narrators make it seem more exciting than it actually is. Link to one of their Best Of videos:

Humanoid Robots Are Beating Each Other to Pulp in an Underground Fight Club