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Steph Brown @stephjayb.bsky.social

Right, but they don't? The chatbot isn't "entering a delusional state," because delusions require consciousness or sentience, which a chatbot doesn't have. It's operating according to it's programming, which causes it to provoke delusions in the human it's interacting with.

aug 8, 2025, 10:43 pm • 1 0

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Steph Brown @stephjayb.bsky.social

No doubt it's convenient for Sam Altman types for us to use this kind of shorthand to describe what's happening, but that's precisely why we shouldn't.

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