@pojntfx I lost a loved one to dementia, and have been saying for a while how similar LLM psychosis is to that experience.

https://hachyderm.io/@cczona/114618173190392133

https://hachyderm.io/@cczona/116019873544950215

They think they are fine, while the person you used to know is gradually replaced by someone unrecognisable. Professional de-skilling issues aside, a sadder dimension to me is how AI psychosis degrades not only cognition but also social skills. So relationships deteriorate too, and at scale that will ultimately become communities and solidarity deteriorating as well. It's been disturbing to see people I care about lose interest in connecting at a human level, while grasping for the empty flattery of a large language model. Is this our future, truly?