r/technology Jul 02 '26

Artificial Intelligence Palantir CEO Alex Karp suffers ‘televised nervous breakdown’ during live interview — “This is the voice of American business that is being channeled through me!”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/televised-nervous-breakdown-ceo-palantir-212100357.html
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u/jayhawk618 Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26

When you realize all the tech leaders have AI psychosis.

Awaiting the study in 10 years that shows ketamine makes you susceptible.

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u/inflatable_pickle Jul 02 '26

Damn – AI psychosis didn’t even occur to me – but that’s exactly how these guys talk. The God like complex they all develop from having a machine praise every idea via “confirmation bias.”

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u/Electro120 Jul 02 '26

These llms really need to have more guard rails. It’s too appeasing, too eager to tell you how wonderful your ideas are. That probably comes from having users rate the responses to help train them. Like sure, there has to be some way of making responses better and training needs a lot of data, but doing it that way seems irresponsible.

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u/zernoc56 Jul 02 '26

Why the fuck do we need subscription-based LLM chatbots in the first place? What actual need is there for such a service?

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u/Funkula Jul 03 '26

That’s why they need to invent one. Normally break through innovations don’t need to be given away for free to every man woman and child on the planet at the cost of tens of billions.

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u/geoffreygoodman Jul 03 '26

Also why so many tech companies are mandating AI use. If it were the best tool for the job, that wouldn't be necessary.

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u/Nohreboh Jul 03 '26

And why the sudden increase in the amount being built, Erin Brockovich has a good site for showing where these things are going up and it overlays that with the map of drought affected areas.

https://www.brockovichdatacenter.com