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I think it's mostly people with existing symptoms that get exacerbated by an affirming chat bot that they believe is real AI. So when it says "yeah, there are people behind the curtains watching you" or whatnot they believe it even harder. I imagine it's very easy to slip into psychosis if you're prone to it and have supernatural beliefs in general, but LLMs would absolutely reinforce all kinds of ideas.
I'm not so sure it's nasty so much as a natural consequence of the way LLMs are tuned to be agreeable and the same people who believe q anon think it's the real deal AI so of course they just run with it when it agrees a lot.
I guess it could be nefarious still, but idk it just seems like people are feeding the LLM nonsense and getting it back?