One of the social problems we're experiencing is not being able to draw lines on what is and is not mental illness and a prevalent desire to validate people, most importantly where this desire to validate comes up against potential core points in a person's mental illness.
People are turning validating people's illnesses into a moral imperative confusing "don't stigmatize" with active encouragement.
These public LLMs are providing that level of, I don't know, delusion sycophancy, to an extreme amount which is resulting in people's deaths.
A collectivist society would put the onus on the service provider to protect people from themselves, an individualist society would either license people as "allowed to be free" and then whatever happens is their responsibility or say everybody has that license.
What we actually get though is a mix of collectivist/individualist based on ideological alignment where "I" should be free to do whatever I want and restrictions and freedoms should be aligned for my ideology to be applied to everyone with collectivist or individualist policies designed to maximize my ideology.
People won't pick between one and the other, they'll just advocate for freedom for the things they like.
People are turning validating people's illnesses into a moral imperative confusing "don't stigmatize" with active encouragement.
These public LLMs are providing that level of, I don't know, delusion sycophancy, to an extreme amount which is resulting in people's deaths.
A collectivist society would put the onus on the service provider to protect people from themselves, an individualist society would either license people as "allowed to be free" and then whatever happens is their responsibility or say everybody has that license.
What we actually get though is a mix of collectivist/individualist based on ideological alignment where "I" should be free to do whatever I want and restrictions and freedoms should be aligned for my ideology to be applied to everyone with collectivist or individualist policies designed to maximize my ideology.
People won't pick between one and the other, they'll just advocate for freedom for the things they like.