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Therapy Chatbot Tells Recovering Addict to Have a Little Meth as a Treat (futurism.com)

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[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

I don't see how this is much different from the sycophancy "error" OpenAI built into its machine to drive user retention.

If a meth user is looking for reasons to keep using, then a yes-man AI system biased toward agreeing with them will give them reasons.

Honestly, it's much scarier than meth addiction; you could reasonably argue the meth user should pull up their bootstraps and simply refuse to use the sycophantic AI.

But what about flat-earthers? What about Q-Anon? These are not people looking for the treatment of their mental illness, and a sycophantic AI will tell them "You're on the right track. It's freedom fighters like you this country needs. NASA doesn't want people to know about this."