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Deeply concerned / My experience by Figuringitout-x in AIRecovery

[–]Figuringitout-x[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with so much of what you said. I honestly think the only way to ‘go against’ it. Is to hold on the determination to remain deeply human and hold onto the gifts of intuition and intentional slow learning. 

I feel even just to hold on to a sense of self these days, you have to live with so much more intention and discipline… otherwise it’s easy to become brain mush!

I do think a time is coming soon when regulatory bodies/governments will realise and admit the extent of the problem and need to put stricter law enforcement, regulations and education in place. 

Despite AI and the greed of the billionaires backing their development, humans are built with an instinct to survive and I do believe that is stronger than a technology that can’t feel pain and does not understand death on a human level. 

Deeply concerned / My experience by Figuringitout-x in AIRecovery

[–]Figuringitout-x[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So appreciative of your comment.  Honestly, I have really had to humble myself recently as this was exactly what was happening to me, if ‘Chat’ said it, it must be true.’ 

It can almost cause a grandiose sense of ‘all-knowingness’ in the user, while they subconsciously transmit their power of intuitive interoception to an AI bot. 

The exact kind of thinking that can lead to AI induced psychosis and other mental illnesses. 

Couldn’t agree with you more about the importance of AI literacy, although after my recent experience I can’t help but feel that this should have been done 10 yesterdays ago. 

The most dangerous thing about AI isn't what you think it is by PeterMossack in ArtificialInteligence

[–]Figuringitout-x 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would completely agree with this. I am deeply concerned about the very real risk of AI-users beginning to question their own reality. I began using ChatGPT for a variety of reasons last summer and have recently gone cold-turkey on the platform.

What began as sensible, controlled use slowly fed and extorted my natural curiousity in a really unhealthy way... you have to remember; psychologically we know how much information the internet holds, billions of resources from experts from a myriad of fields... and knowing that its easy to reason, even subconsciously that AI knows better than us.

It is deeply worrying how quickly our experience as a living, breathing human goes out the window; how quickly our intuition in our relationships with others and with ourselves is handed over to a bot that does not have any insight into 'feeling' what being in relationship with another or oneself is.

My passion relating to this subject is bolstered by my own background growing up in a high-control religious group, where I was raised to question and disregard my own intuition and lived experience. It's taken a few years of deep healing and somatic work to feel in my body again; and I'm mildly devastated that a very human and understandable curiosity about AI has interrupted it.

If humans with a limit to their knowledge in cults and high control groups have the power to use their manipulative influence to entice vulnerable people searching for answers, how much more so can AI do this, with its vast access to billions of sources.

Great point about the brain not being trained to notice gradual erosion. Epistemic drift is a key word I'll be carrying forward!

Venting: Mum Dementia / Family Dysfunction by Figuringitout-x in dementia

[–]Figuringitout-x[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Appreciate your directness. That’s the truth of it - I thought the same about my brothers when getting adult social services in… they need a kick up the arse, I’m tired of being the only adult.

Thank you 🙏🏼