• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 months ago

      You increase the sample size, you increase the number of hits.

      Do you think statisticians aren’t well aware of this?

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          3 months ago

          If the statisticians involved in this case study are anywhere close to as unhinged as you are then it’s no wonder they got those results lol

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            3 months ago

            Homie been smokin’ them data science rocks, it seems.

            Literally made an account on this instance just to let them know I think they’re fucking dense, but I decided they’re not even worth interacting with personally.

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      3 months ago

      Huh? The whole point of this emerging scientific debate is that AI use might be proportionally unsafe, i. e. it might be a risk factor causing and/or exacerbating psychosis. Now sure this is still just a hypothesis and it’s too early to make definite epidemiological statements, but it’s just as wrong to blankly state that AI is “still just as safe”.

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          3 months ago

          Alright, but the point is that the “X level of safety” AI is at might be a dangerous level in the first place. I don’t think anybody is arguing that AI got more dangerous as a psychosis risk factor over the past year or so, they’re arguing that AI was a risk factor to begin with, and with increased AI use more evidence of this turns up. So you saying that the inherent risk of AI hasn’t changed is kind of a moot point because that’s not what the debate is about.

          Also notice that I clearly said it’s too early to tell one way or the other, so there’s no reason to malign me as uncritical.

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              3 months ago

              I can agree with that. (As an aside, I think scientific findings are almost always exaggerated like this in popular journalism.)

              I’d say the long and short of it is that we simply don’t (and can’t) know yet. But I think more research on possible links between AI and psychotic delusions is definitely useful, because I find the idea of a connection plausible.

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          3 months ago

          I don’t particularly love or hate AI …

          Says the person calling people “fucks agreeing with this shit take”, and “brain-dead AI haters” and “less-critical readers” and just in this thread alone. Who knows what else I’d find in looking in your full posting history.

          Not a very convincing act, even for a clank-fucker.