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The moderators of a pro-artificial intelligence Reddit community announced that they have been quietly banning “a bunch of schizoposters” who believe “they've made some sort of incredible discovery or created a god or become a god,” highlighting a new type of chatbot-fueled delusion that started getting attention in early May.

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Nietzche would've lost his marbles. Oh, wait...

[–] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 135 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (18 children)

At this rate we'll soon have a decentralized para-religious terrorist organization full of brainlets that got scared shitless after discovering Roko's Basilisk and are now doing the cyber lord's bidding in order to not get punished once AGI arrives

edit: change to non-mobile link

[–] asbestos@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

This reads like Zack Freedman

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 83 points 1 week ago (3 children)

tfw its no longer just the AI hallucinating

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago

I always wanted to take drugs with my computer!

[–] Skunk@jlai.lu 55 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Yeah, there’s been an article shared on lemmy a few months ago about couples or families destroyed by AI.

Like the husband thinks he discovered some new truth, kinda religious level about how the world is working and stuff. The he becomes an annoying guru and ruins his social life.

Kind of Qanon people but with chatGPT…

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[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 63 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The year is 2026 the cyberchristo religion is taking off….

[–] thenose@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The wh 40k lore sounds more realistic than ever

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[–] nagaram@startrek.website 45 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I think Terry A Davis would have found god in chat GPT and could have figured out the API calls on TempleOS

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[–] R3D4CT3D@midwest.social 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

can i call off work bc of “ai delusions”?

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