Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing all the hardened prohibitionists who attack drug law reform efforts - only because they're concerned about mental health, of course - these knee-jerk conservatives, publicans, newspaper editors and alcohol industry lobbyists, all lobbying to ban generative models;
Shock! Horror! AI causes psychosis!?!
They're not going to ignore the same risk when it comes from a different source, are they? : P
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I also posted today about the total failure of drug prohibition;
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/115658934648378795
A risk of psychosis is one of the few health risks ascribed to cannabis use that has *some* evidence behind it. Although prohibitionists making claims about it vastly overstate their case;
Shock! Horror! Cannabis causes psychosis!?!
(It doesn't, but it can trigger preexisting risks in a small number of people;
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Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing all the hardened prohibitionists who attack drug law reform efforts - only because they're concerned about mental health, of course - these knee-jerk conservatives, publicans, newspaper editors and alcohol industry lobbyists, all lobbying to ban generative models;
Shock! Horror! AI causes psychosis!?!
They're not going to ignore the same risk when it comes from a different source, are they? : P
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Just realised I forgot to swap in "AI" for "cannabis" after my timesaving copypasta. So that joke kind of died on the hoof ... : P
"Another case involved a man with a history of a psychotic disorder falling in love with an AI chatbot and then seeking revenge because he believed the AI entity was killed by OpenAI. This led to an encounter with the police in which he was shot and killed."
#MarlynnWei M.D., J.D, 2025
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/urban-survival/202507/the-emerging-problem-of-ai-psychosis
Holy spitballs!
Prohibitionists;
Shock! Horror! ChatGPT uses can cause DEATH!?!
