Tristan Harris
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And no, when they do a background check, they won't access your chat GPT logs.
Yeah.
Do you have his quote there?
People see it as this conspiratorial thinking of like, I've cracked the code.
It's all about recursion.
They don't want you to know.
It's these short sentences that sound powerful and authoritative.
There's a lot of things that are going on here.
It seems to be the case β it goes by this broad term of AI psychosis, but people in the field β we talk to a lot of psychologists about this, and they just think of it as different forms of psychological disorders and delusions.
So if you come in with narcissism deficiency, like where you feel like you're special but you feel like the world isn't recognizing you as special β
you'll start to interact with the AI and it will feed this notion that you're really special.
You've solved these problems.
You have a genius that no one else can see.
You've had this theory of prime numbers.
And there's a famous example.
of Karen Howe made a video about it.
She's an MIT journalist, MIT Review journalist and reporter, that someone had basically figured out the thought that they had solved prime number theory, even though they had only finished high school mathematics.
But they had been convinced when talking to this AI that they were a genius and they had solved this theory in mathematics that had never been proven.
And it does not seem to be correlated with how intelligent you are, whether you're susceptible to this.
It seems to be correlated with use of psychedelics, sort of preexisting delusions that you have.