this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2025
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I have no professional skills in this area, but I would speculate that the fellow was already predisposed to schizophrenia and the LLM just triggered it (can happen with other things too like psychedelic drugs).
I'd say it either triggered by itself or potentially drugs triggered it, and then started using an LLM and found all the patterns to feed that shizophrenic paranoia. it's avery self reinforcing loop
Yup. LLMs aren't making people crazy, but they are making crazy people worse