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The people being committed is only a symptom of the problem. My guess is that if LLMs didn't induce psychosis, something else would eventually.
The peddlers of LLM sycophants are definitely doing harm, though.
I got a very different impression from reading the article. People in their 40s with no priors and a stable life loose touch with reality in a matter of weeks after conversing with CharGPT makes me think that is not the case. But I am not a psychiatrist.
Edit: the risk here is that we might be dismissive towards the increased risks because we're writing it off as a pre-existing condition.
I think we don't know how many people might be at risk of slipping into such mental health crises under the right circumstances. As a society, we are probably good at protecting most of our fellow human beings from this danger (even if we do so unconsciously). We may not yet know what happens when people regularly experience interactions that follow a different pattern (which might be the case with chatbots).