Yes, ChatGPT (and other models) need a psychiatrist: parallels between experimental neuropsychiatry and AI alignment science
AI chatbots (such as ChatGPT or Claude) sometimes state false information with confidence, a behavior popularly termed “hallucination.” In their recent perspective, de Boer et al. [1] compared these errors to confabulation in patients with memory disorders, and asked whether ChatGPT needs a psychiatrist. I argue that i...