PsycheBubbles - Anwesha Bhattacharya

Note: This blog post is only meant to be a discussion about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and LLMs and not to pass any judgment on people who do use AI. This post is written to encourage conversation around the effects of passively using A.I. on people and not to diagnose or provide clinical advice about people's psychological health. In the last seven days, many of us may have gone to the internet, opened a social media app or specifically shopped online, and, without even trying, we may have used AI in some capacity. That is how pervasive these Large Language Models (LLMs) have become, and with that degree of presence, it is pertinent to question – “How do LLM-based AI models affect us?” The polarity of the discourse about using A.I .- with one group touting it as an omnipotent being which would replace people in almost all (if not all) fields of work and the other resorting to shaming people who use it- has made it difficult to have nuanced conversations about it. But that ma...

“Let's say your name is J...You reach the office a little late, catching your breath and before anyone can ask what happened, you say, “The traffic was horrible today, I was stuck on the road for such a long time on the main road.” And the truth is, the traffic indeed was horrible, forcing everyone to move at a snail’s pace. But there is another side to this, you might have also woken up later and hurried as much as you could to reach your office on time." A week later, one of your colleagues is late; he too comes into the office out of breath, saying the same thing you did, but your first thought is, “He probably overslept today, even though we are supposed to work on the project together.” We might have done this at least once, where we assumed that when a person did something (they made a mistake, or were late for something), it was because of things like their personality (who they are as a person) and similar dispositional factors, but we focused more on...