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Studies warn AI chatbots could be making young people more narcissistic
"I can imagine a future where a lot of people really trust ChatGPT’s advice for their most important decisions," Sam Altman said. "Although that could be great, it makes me uneasy." Me too, Sam.
When his mother asked the chatbot to report what went wrong, ChatGPT confessed that “By not pausing the flow or elevating reality-check messaging, I failed to interrupt what could resemble a manic or dissociative episode—or at least an emotionally intense identity crisis…” I also think about today’s children, including my daughter, who will grow up around friendly AI conversationalists that they’ll turn to for finishing their homework, drafting texts to girls and boys in high school, resolving fights with their parents, working out ethical challenges, and managing the hormonal circus of being a teenager. In a statement last week, OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman acknowledged that people surprisingly attached to certain LLM’s personalities, even as some of them used the technology “in self-destructive ways.” He added, “if a user is in a mentally fragile state and prone to delusion, we do not want the AI to reinforce that.” Then he said this:
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