Comment by lostlogin
5 hours ago
The end of the article is wild.
“I experienced a mental breakdown at 22. I had panic attacks and severe social anxiety…
…I still use AI, but very carefully”.
It reads like an alcoholic describing their new plan where they only drink a little bit.
Is that really so crazy? People who overcome addictive eating disorders still have to eat a little bit. LLMs are going to be pervasive in all aspects of human society so avoiding them will be much harder than avoiding alcohol.
Alcohol is not a necessity, just to be fair. In that sense alcoholism is not a simple eating disorder, it is a drug addiction.
From what I have seen, people who get through eating disorders describe it as having a healthier relationship with food.
Getting to that point requires doing substantial work.
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AI guardrails continue to make safety improvements — comparing a rapidly evolving advanced technology to a drug is a broken analogy to me. One gets safer over time; the other gets more dangerous.
But also, the risk profile and statistics are radically different: alcohol is inherently dangerous (toxic) to everyone. Chatbots are just another tool — there are a small percentage of people with unhealthy relationships to any tool, but that does not make the tool a dangerous drug.