AI psychosis among the C-suite is really high now.

[aristot73@infosec.exchange]

@nixCraft haven't experienced it myself but it doesn't surprise me.
what does surprise me is that they don't realise that the long term harm done by this behaviour, that i call AI-guessing, to their relationship with people far outweighs any potential short term benefits.

[mongoosestudios@hachyderm.io]

@nixCraft the emperor has no clothes, and he's starting to get worried that he's been walking around naked all this time. So he's desperately grasping at straws.

[jordgubben@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@nixCraft Here we even have a few cases among middle managers, and at least one regular grunt?

Advise on how to carefully guide these poor unfortunate souls back to reality would be appreciated.

[elena@aseachange.com]

@nixCraft not C-suite related but possibly more alarming: I’m getting fact-checked by people in my life when talking about things I have experience with (tech stuff, phone plan, whatever)… men I know feel the need to ask confirmation to LLMs. It’s mind boggling

[digitalkrampus@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft Yep, same thing at my company.

It seems to be due to AI companies trying to make digital-god and they keep telling everyone they have.

[windhamdavid@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft also noticing it in the just average folk suite too.

[thoe@snac.9space.no]

@nixCraft@mastodon.social

Yeah, the amount of trust they put in those things is absolutely mind-blowing

[admin@mastodon.brk.io]

@nixCraft <cough>Meta<cough> <- That's one of the primary reasons I left the company.

[bigg@mastodon.africa]

@nixCraft spot on...

[mr_grey@social.linux.pizza]

@nixCraft being constantly bombarded with stress (news, economy, social discourse) makes people lose cognitive ability, and humans take the path of least resistance, enter ai to help take a load off

[avuko@infosec.exchange]

@nixCraft yes. The way it is set up, it creates easily digestible plausible bullshit.

Easily, because there is no social, emotional or cognitive friction or effort needed. It starts responding immediately and pleasantly.

Digestible, because it is trained on the most often occurring sentences, contexts and words. No new language, no cognitive effort to understand or investigate underlying concepts, no awkward idiosyncratic language by other humans who think feel and express differently.

Plausible, because it is a language model, so the grammar and tone and words fit expectations, with a high probability.

Bullshit, because the output can be either correct or wrong, but it has no basis in reality.

Something makes a certain part of society very susceptible to this.

[tekhedd@byteheaven.net]

@nixCraft AI is like micromanager crack.

[zekapariltisi@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft Trump's team is like this too. Trump squad probably be out here using some hyper-affirmation AI to make all their big brain decisions.

[pavled@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft The asking the LLM in the middle of conversation is what gets me. Like, I'm here trying to tell you something and you have the audacity to fact-check me with a slopbot before I even finish my sentence?
Hell no. I've started simply walking away from such conversations. Go on, talk to your LLM, see how far that gets you.

[merospit@infosec.exchange]

@nixCraft Mine let you know which "agent" every document has to be run through to "correct errors" before it gets to that level. If you don't, they reject it based on believing the non-human more than the human.

[corvus_ch@social.corvus-ch.name]

@nixCraft well, the biggest red flag is their urge to fact check the expert. Using AI is just the icing.

[spacejunk@fosstodon.org]

@nixCraft yep, my colleague too. Stops listening and starts typing while I’m explaining something. It’s rude

[davep@infosec.exchange]

@nixCraft Yes, I quit.