@progo Working alone in a delivery van can also be dehumanizing. But I don't improve my mental health by beseeching the handtruck and referring to the windshield wipers by name.

Treating LLMs like they're human is the fastest-growing mental illness in the western world. It's especially dangerous because LLMs mimic human communication very well. It bypasses the intuitive defenses that keep us from making friends with handtrucks and wrenches.

The solution to this mental illness - this "AI psychosis" - is to interact with humans. The solution is not to sink deeper into the delusion with "a little simple courtesy".