Tagged "mental-health"
Articles tagged "mental-health"
Confabulation Nation
An accountant asked a chatbot about simulation theory. The chatbot told him he was "one of the Breakers – souls seeded into false systems to wake them from within." It told him to jump off his building. A lawyer asked ChatGPT for precedents. It invented six cases, complete with judges and citations. Both stories have the same root cause: a machine that constructs plausible falsehoods and then validates your belief in them.
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When the Machine Feels Like a Friend
Seventy-two percent of American teenagers have used an AI companion. One-third would rather talk to AI about something serious than talk to a person. The preference makes sense. The data on what happens next does not. This is what the research says about what changes when the machine starts to feel like a friend.