Matt: AI Psychosis

One of the most concerning trends I’ve seen is that, as people adopt AI, it captures those for whom it was designed. That previous sentence went through several revisions at various layers of intelligence… the spell-checker, grammar-checker, Grammarly, Harper, maybe more, all attacking the words that spill from my divine intelligence and then interact with yours.

Anthropic has published a really interesting essay and paper, The assistant axis: situating and stabilizing the character of large language models. You need infoguards to protect your mind.

Sam Altman was prescient in 2023 when he said,

i expect ai to be capable of superhuman persuasion well before it is superhuman at general intelligence, which may lead to some very strange outcomes

Some very smart and talented friends are going down rabbit holes that don’t have good ends. My world is small; when you extrapolate this out to the 800M+ MAUs of ChatGPT, there’s probably a lot of weird stuff happening out there. We live in the most interesting times.