This is a great piece, enjoyed it.

Although I find his premise entirely reasonable, I'm continually struck at how little introspection goes on within the HN / Silicon Valley crowd.

He does a fine job in his piece of coming up with a plausible theory that LLMs can exacerbate existing mental illness....however he never questions if: Are we guilty of causing this by how we framed the tech? That is , was it a good idea to spend 5 years exhaustively misrepresenting this tech as conscious to the general public?

Everyone in AI space loves to get on stage an pontificate about how much of a disaster our new invention will cause. The examples given all strongly infer that AI = human level intelligence.

Elon is now joining with his arch-rival Sam Altman and backing UBI calls, since their pattern matcher is going to cause mass unemployment (once it can operate a McDonalds drive-thru apparently). Quite interesting that they found something they agree on: Namely, their invention is going to change every aspect of the world.

These type of strongly suggestive displays from techbros have more than a little to do with why those with latent mental health problems are being negatively impacted by LLMs.