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   Ars Technica (arstechnica@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Aug-2025 04:33:39 JST Ars Technica

   After using ChatGPT, man swaps his salt for sodium bromide—and suffers psychosis
   Literal "hallucinations" were the result.
   https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/08/after-using-chatgpt-man-swaps-his-salt-for-sodium-bromide-and-suffers-psychosis/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 08-Aug-2025 07:51:09 JST Rich Felker

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     • ZenHeathen 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

     @ZenHeathen @arstechnica No, because who has access to the information, background knowledge about what these garbage chatbots actually are, training in critical thinking, etc. to be resilient against the barage of lies in the media is highly correlated with the goals of eugenics. Thus, it's still eugenics.

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     ZenHeathen 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 (zenheathen@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 08-Aug-2025 07:51:10 JST ZenHeathen 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

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     @arstechnica Okay. I've been saying for some time that AI is bad, no one should use these stupid chatbots, etc.

     But I'm starting to have a new thought.

     Let those who are willing go ahead. And let those who are stupid enough to trust LLMs for medical and nutritional advice put glue on their pizza, or whatever it tells them to do.

     Eugenics is a bad thing. But if it's self-selection, isn't it just Darwin Awards writ large?