AI psychosis among the C-suite is really high now. I’m seeing it at work, where they validate everything using AI even though they know it screws up. For example, if I tell them a reboot isn't needed for a CVE because we aren’t running the app directly on the server, its in Docker, they will immediately fact check me with AI right while we talking. It’s just 1 example, but I’ve never seen such bizarre behavior. They treat AI like some divine truth. Has anyone noticed this?
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@nixCraft this requires some very basic undersranding of how things work 😆. If they fact check such things.... well idk, I feel sorry for them
@nixCraft At the end of the year ask "AI" whether you should get promoted. When it says "yes", go to your boss, show him the chat and demand the promotion.
@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.
@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.
@nixCraft also noticing it in the just average folk suite too.
@nixCraft "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence" via https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec8352
Basically using contemporary LLM chatbots is addictive and discourages human communication. It's unhealthy and has been widely researched.
+ Decision paralysis
+ Peer pressure
@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.
@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
@nixCraft what I really hate is any sentence that starts with "chat gpt says..." which is at the same time taking credit for anything that is right and useful and deflecting the blame for anything that is wrong onto an inanimate object.
@nixCraft Well heck, it might be even worse than you think..
cf: https://houseofsaud.com/iran-war-ai-psychosis-sycophancy-rlhf/
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I had similar experiences with consultants before, and now it switched to AI, well, but... I would say not so much changed 🤷♂️😁
@nixCraft in an "at least the AI can keep up with him" kind of way or a "he might be wrong/lying" kind of way?
@nixCraft Not that extreme, but I've had offers to help declined in preference to llms
@nixCraft they've outsourced all their thinking. It's kind of sad.