[petercooper]

> AI optimism requires believing that you … are not among those who will be driven to psychosis, to violence, or even to suicide by LLM usage. At the very least, this means you feel secure in your own mental health

This has echoes of moral panic to me. We hear about mental health crises triggered by LLMs in the media because they’re novel, uncommon and the stories grab attention. The modern equivalent of video games cause violence, or jazz is corrupting the youth?

I’ll concede AI has many perils, and I doubt we’ve even broken the surface of it yet, but I don’t think user psychosis is either now, or going to be, a common one.

[elzbardico]

Well, maybe one day, there’ll be a situation justifying a moral panic.

We can’t simply dispose of an argument just because it smells in a particular way to us.

[antonvs]

“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.” — Christopher Hitchens