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Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions (www.404media.co)
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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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[-] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 128 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

[-] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 3 weeks ago

Boy have I got news for you.

Look up the Zizians.

(Ok they’re only a tangential offshoot of people who maybe really like the Basilisk thought experiment and mostly don’t believe it. But hey. It’s underway!)

[-] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago

Zizians my guy, they already exist

[-] pticrix@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 weeks ago

"rationalists". They dare use that name unironically.

[-] SparroHawc@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

Rationalists are (supposedly) smart enough to figure out that Roko's Basilisk wouldn't waste cycles torturing someone in effigy if they decided they're going to ignore the threat of Roko's Basilisk. It's the opposite of a catch-22.

[-] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Imagine a boot SO mighty that if it exists it might crush you, so you need to lick it ahead of time so that someday if it does exist, it might not crush you.

[-] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

What if it’s an infinitely mighty boot? Ya know what’d make it even more mighty? Existing. Therefore it already exists. Start licking!

I just did a theology!

[-] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

The omniscient Boot requires lubrication!

[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, at least the chat bots are always nonviolent and are restricted from encouraging people to do any harm. Doesn’t mean these people can’t (un)reason around it. People read the Bible and think it’s telling them to bomb clinics and hate their neighbors somehow.

[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 6 points 3 weeks ago

decentralized

Depends on the AI they're using and its bias

[-] asbestos@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

This reads like Zack Freedman

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