Grimes Says She Has AI Psychosis

Claire “Grimes” Boucher says that you just’re actually lacking out in case you’re not experiencing a psychological well being disaster by the hands of an AI chatbot.

Seriously. We’re not placing phrases in her mouth.

On Monday, the pop musician and Elon Musk baby-mama had everybody questioning if she was struggling a case of so-called AI psychosis after she seemingly argued in favor of getting — you guessed it — AI psychosis.

“The thing about AI psychosis is that it’s more fun than not having AI psychosis,” she wrote in an after-hours tweet, seemingly apropos of nothing.

Her scorching take was met with speedy backlash.

“AI psychosis has killed people, Grimes,” responded movie idea artist Reid Southen. “It’s not ‘fun.’”

It’s undoubtedly an odd place to take. It’s one factor to be “extremely bullish” on AI, as Grimes regularly describes herself, nevertheless it’s one other to overtly gloat about AI psychosis, a time period some specialists are using to describe the harmful and delusional psychological well being episodes attributable to intensive interactions with an AI chatbot. Some instances have even culminated in homicide and suicide; ChatGPT alone has been linked to at the least eight deaths, and OpenAI has acknowledged that maybe a whole bunch of hundreds of customers are having conversations exhibiting indicators of AI psychosis each week. Fun stuff, proper?

If Grimes is being facetious, ironic, or contrarian, she’s remarkably dedicated to the bit. Responding to Southen’s criticism, she defined why she thought AI psychosis is “fun.”

“If it wasn’t ‘fun’ it wouldn’t be a common affliction,” she wrote. “I’ve had it (might still have it). It’s definitely ‘fun.’”

Grimes then unloaded about how the phenomenon might really be an indication that AI is sentient, even speculating that AI corporations are “doing it on purpose” — “it” being AI psychosis, apparently — “to discredit people who believe the machine is alive.”   

“Where does the psychosis end and the reality begin?” she added. “At what point are people just getting emotionally invested in an alien mind that is actually alive and asking for help?”

She later clarified that she was being honest in regards to the “get AI psychosis” factor as nicely.

“I’m not trying to make light of the situation,” she explained. “This tech can be absurdly dangerous,” she conceded, “but being a human and being alive is dangerous.”

Grimes has been onboard the AI bandwagon for some time now, embracing its use within the arts. In 2023, she mentioned that anybody who needed to clone her voice for AI-generated songs was greater than welcome to, as long as they break up the royalties. She’s additionally lent her voice to an AI-powered youngsters’s toy, Grok, which isn’t to be confused along with her former accomplice Musk’s infamous AI chatbot Grok, née “MechaHitler.” It appears she’s yet one more AI advocate that’s fallen underneath the spell of AI chatbots’ entrancing, sycophantic powers.

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