Woman Suffers AI Psychosis After Obsessively Generating AI Images of Herself

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She has since jumped ship to become a director at another trendy company, PsyMed Ventures, which Newsweek described as a VC fund investing in mental and brain health. Many of the companies PsyMed invests in feature AI tools — which Ner says she still uses, albeit with a newfound sense of respect.

She hasn’t learned a thing. She should have learned she’s susceptible and needs to stay as far away from the shit as possible.

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How many drug addicts don’t distance themselves from drugs? Why would this be any different?

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I mean I know a fair share of people who did manage to quit smoking. Or cut down on weed or alcohol. Especially after things went sideways for them… So… Both is possible and being demonstrated by people each day. I mean you’re certainly right. It ain’t easy to do some self reflecting and stay away from addictive things. Requires motivation, mental strength and a good amount of effort. Just saying… because it’s good not to portray it as if resignation and drugs were people’s only option…

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“Woman with bipolar disorder suffers manic episode”

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Alcohol absolutely makes mental health issues worse, I’m not sure what you’re trying to say here.

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If we bring this back to alcohol, the alcohol absolutely is to blame for worsening symptoms. There’s even the term “alcohol-induced psychosis” or “alcohol-related psychosis” to describe the effect. Without the alcohol they are fine, with it they enter psychosis.

If someone is symptom-free without AI and experiences symptoms with AI, then calling it “AI psychosis” would be reasonable.

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imo it won’t matter until the bubble pops. AI could be powered by literal human sacrifice and it would be dismissed.

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Yeah AI isn’t causing psychosis, it’s amplifying and enabling people who might already have problems.

What is your argument here? That since AI is not the direct cause of it, these articles are pointless? I think we’d want to know if, to use your example, commonly available thing like alcohol was giving people psychosis

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I don’t think anyone here is blaming AI for this woman’s mental issues, those clearly existed before generative AI. AI just happened to enable her issues, which the article points out.

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You’re right but posting this in the Fuck AI community is like hating nazis in the Tesla community

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