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Connecticut Man's Case Believed to Be First Murder-Suicide Associated With AI Psychosis

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At one point, Soelberg uploaded an image of a receipt from a Chinese restaurant and asked ChatGPT to analyze it for hidden messages. The chatbot found references to “Soelberg’s mother, his ex-girlfriend, intelligence agencies and an ancient demonic sigil,” according to the Journal.
Soelberg worked in marketing at tech companies like Netscape, Yahoo, and EarthLink, but had been out of work since 2021, according to the newspaper. He divorced in 2018 and moved in with his mother that year. Soelberg reportedly became more unstable in recent years, attempting suicide in 2019, and getting picked up by police for public intoxication and DUI. After a recent DUI in February, Soelberg told the chatbot that the town was out to get him, and ChatGPT allegedly affirmed his delusions, telling him, “This smells like a rigged setup.”

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Connecticut Man's Case Believed to Be First Murder-Suicide Associated With AI Psychosis

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First Murder-Suicide Case Associated with AI Psychosis

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Boomers... Jfc
I am sure "AI" didn't help but this life arc and behaviour just reeks of boomerism
But this is just another shill op by the AI parasites to stay relevant.
- This is not boomerism. A kid committed suicide because ChatGPT encouraged him to do it in a very similar way to how it enabled this guy's conspiracies.
  ChatGPT is the ultimate enabler.
We got cyberpsychosis before we got cyberware.
The first they can tie to AI.
AI chatbots have a tendency to be sycophantic, which is a recipe for disaster when people lose touch with reality.
sycophant (adj.) A servile self-seeking flatterer
This is absolutely not "AI psychosis." The dude had clear symptoms of psychosis well before he ever engaged any LLM ("AI"). When someone who is psychotic uses a LLM, they're still just regular ol' psychotic.
- It didn't help. A reasonable person would have backed away and called for help not affirm his delusional behavior.
- Yeah, as much as I hate LLMbeciles and think they're deliberately programmed to be parasitically obsequious, this sounds like someone who had major problems before ChatGPT and if it wasn't ChatGPT it would have been his TV or that lamp in the corner telling him to do things.
Netscape, yahoo, EarthLink.
This guy couldn’t update his resume in 21 years?
Yeah there’s something else going on there.
- Yeah mental illness for sure especially considering the bad behavior like DUIs and possibly the divorce.
  It would be nice if we didnt tie our lives to work so much and be got the help needed
- Left behind by the march of progress. I would have a chip on shoulder
"I'm sorry to hear that the whole town is out to get you. That must be very difficult. Fortunately, there are some concrete actions you can make to stop their conspiricy agaisnt you and also end the pain that you're in.
Would you like me to help you write a suicide note?"
- Clippy, is that you?
  
  A beast with bloodied vampire teeth drops clippy's lifeless body and says:
  No
  
  You look like you are writing a manifesto. Would like a list of schools near you?
Reason 24435 why you did not train AI on Reddit.
- Also why you don't automatically treat anything an LLM tells you as factual. LLMs are just a fancy guesser of the next word that would appear in a sentence based upon probability of what its been trained with and with a mechanism to introduce some randomness on which word it picks. I did a 60 second explanation of the basic concept how LLMs worked to a coworker this week. He was kind of shocked how stupid LLMs actually are once he got the explanation.
  
  Not to mention that just about every model is designed to basically validate everything you say and make up whatever facts it wants to support it. If you tell an LLM that your neighbors are lizard people who want to steal all your copper, it'll agree easily and suggest ways to take matters into your own hands with minimal prodding.
- Im guessing you mean “should not have” and “should not moving forward.” Because the models were most certainly trained on Reddit. If that’s the case, agreed
Ai always seems to yes-and even when the factual answer is no.
First they came for AI, and I said nothing..

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