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Claire “Grimes” Boucher says you’re really missing out if you’re not experiencing a mental health crisis caused by an AI chatbot.
seriously. We are not putting words in his mouth.
On Monday, the pop musician and baby-mom of Elon Musk had everyone wondering if she was suffering from a case of so-called AI psychosis when she argued in favor of — you guessed it — AI psychosis.
“The thing about AI psychosis is that it’s more fun than not having AI psychosis,” she wrote in a tweet an hour later, seemingly making no sense.
His hot take faced immediate backlash.
“AI psychosis has killed people, Grimes,” express reaction Film concept artist Reed Southen. “It’s not ‘fun’.”
This is undoubtedly a strange situation. It’s one thing to be “extremely optimistic” on AI, as Grimes often does describes herselfBut this is another way of openly praising AI psychosis, a term some experts call use to describe Destructive and delusional mental health episodes caused by extensive interactions with AI chatbots. Some cases have resulted in murder and suicide, ChatGPIT alone has been linked to at least eight deaths, and OpenAI has acknowledged that perhaps hundreds of thousands of users each week are interacting with AI showing signs of psychosis. Funny stuff, isn’t it?
If Grimes is pretentious, ironic, or contradictory, he is remarkably committed to some degree. Responding to Southen’s criticism, he explained why he thinks AI psychosis is “fun”.
“If it weren’t ‘fun’ it wouldn’t be a common problem,” she says. wrote“I had it (probably still have it), It’s definitely ‘fun’,”
Grimes then explained how this phenomenon may actually be a sign that AI is sentient, even speculating that AI companies are “doing it on purpose” – “this” is AI psychosis, apparently – “to discredit people who believe that machines are alive.”
“Where does psychosis end and reality begin?” He added. “At what point do people become emotionally invested in an alien mind that is actually alive and asking for help?”
She later clarified that she was also being honest about the “AI gets psychosis” thing.
“I’m not trying to make light of the situation,” she said Explained“This technology may be extremely dangerous,” he admitted, “but being a human being and surviving is dangerous,”
Grimes has been on the AI bandwagon for some time now, embracing its use in art. In 2023, he said that anyone who wants to clone his voice for AI-generated songs is welcome to do so, as long as they split the royalties. He has also lent his voice to an AI-powered children’s toy, Grok, which is not to be confused with his former partner Musk’s infamous AI chatbot Grok, aka “MechaHitler”. It seems she is yet another AI supporter who has fallen under the spell of the charming, sycophantic powers of AI chatbots.
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