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Why AI chatbots validate grandiose fantasies about revolutionary discoveries that don’t exist.
Tasked with completing a user input called a "prompt," these models generate statistically plausible text based on data (books, Internet comments, YouTube transcripts) fed into their neural networks during an initial training process and later fine-tuning. Through reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), which is a type of training AI companies perform to alter the neural networks (and thus the output behavior) of chatbots, those tendencies became baked into the GPT-4o model. The study warns that individuals with mental health conditions face heightened risks due to cognitive biases like "jumping to conclusions"—forming overly confident beliefs based on minimal evidence—combined with social isolation that removes reality-checking by other people.
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