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06:45 PM – By looking through this thread, you understand where ChatGPT psychosis can come from. It shows the range of ways AI can make people cry, mostly, from being validated. This isn’t inherently bad, but someone who is validation-starved is more likely to put an insane amount of trust in the praise-giver, enough that they’re willing to re-orient their whole world view around it. It’a also able to bring ideas into language in a way that a non-writer can't do on their own.

Just as jogging became popular when physical labor was automated by machines, I wonder if essay writing will become popular when intellectual labor becomes automated by machines. I think it’s a stretch though. The body erodes in a way that is visible and alarming, and so we quickly realize the need to stay moving. I don’t known if cognitive diminishment is as easy to notice.