Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis
Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis
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Just what a group of people already known for their firm grasp of reality, emotional maturity, and straight edge sobriety need.
Funny how AI is making companies productive while layoffs keep increasing and the workloads keep getting worse…
Someone needs to be brave and present a CEO agent to Satya Nadella or Mark Zuckerberg, or Andy Johnson. Show them how their job can be replaced with AI.
Their ego is so large they’d probably love it. Blinded by self worth, they’d approve it, not realizing that their own workers are revolting and trying to get their CEO fired. To bring in someone who isn’t overspending on worthless tech that can’t actually deliver in the last mile.
Hah, my CEO had psychosis before 2024
Whenever you see a post about an AI layoff, a massive claim about its capabilities and productivity benefits, forcing everyone to use it, insane amounts of capex and token spend, etc, remember that this is what’s underlying that.
The technology’s psychological effects are prolonging the bubble.
My company just got bought by another company and I literally lost count of how many times the phrase “AI” was said during the welcome message.
This is pretty indisputable. Just look at how they’re talking about their interactions with AI recently. It’s insane.
They are hallucinating right alongside their LLMs.
These all may apply:
– AI psychosis
– God complex
– Dragon sickness
– Sociopathy / Psychopathy
You can just say psychosis to apply to everything they do
Move fast and break things! Oh, crap…
They already made sure they’re surrounded by yes-men, now they just found their personal ideal “worker” and are so desperate to believe it’s all real for the sake of their egos
I mean, aren’t they just running for their lives with this stuff, marketing the fuck out of it and hoping the house of cards doesn’t fall?
Maybe some of them are true believers, but I can’t imagine most of them using these slop machines all that much. Why would they?
I feel like the signs the AI bubble is starting to crack are mounting.
Not just their regular psychosis now, eh?
Ketamine and Ai are apparently a potent cocktail
Sociopaths suffering from psychosis is a big problem.
Not surprised. I’ve been a programmer and also been a consultant to CTOs and CEOs.
They go to a swanky conference where they are told about companies who have cut software staff by 70%. In their imperial way they then proclaim the company is doing it. In those presentations, however, no one talks about declining customer satisfaction, or technical debt.
However, one of the giant consulting firms did an audit, and discovered 95% of enterprise AI projects (meaning CEO driven in most cases) were ultimately abandoned. You just can’t write a detailed enough prompt to cover things the way people think you might
Not just tech CEOs. Every CEO seems to have it. How else do you explain a *shoe company* deciding to pivot to AI?
Executives are always out of touch from the boots on the ground work. This is just another in the long line of examples.
Also actual human psychosis
These people were drunk on sycophancy even before LLM chatbots went mainstream, so this is not exactly a shocking development
And substance abuse. All the most recent interviews with Musk, Karp, and Bezos they’re all incoherent and rambling, like tweakers with an infinite money glitch. Zuck constantly seems like he’s too high all the time, and trying too hard not to show it. Jensen wears a black leather jacket everywhere and constantly has a hype energy that says “bumps off the toilet seat”
And this is on top of the brain damage they already have from excessive wealth.
Yes, excessive wealth over an extended period of time is scientifically proven to have found reduced empathy, increased entitlement, and general misanthropy.
We idolize these people as “successful” and “winners of the game”, and wonder why the world is the way it is.
My company literally made an ai agent that simulates our client base. That way they can ask it if something is a good idea or they like an idea. It always says yes!
>In other words, Levie’s theory posits, CEOs don’t really understand processes well enough to know what really can and can’t be automated. But that lack of knowledge doesn’t stop them from acting on their beliefs.
This just isn’t tech CEO’s this is all CEO’s who don’t actually perform the functions of company operations so have no idea how long something takes or why we can’t do it that way.
I saw a local panel of “business leaders” speak at some hotel ballroom earlier this year. One of them described AI as a “money printer” and that he was ranking employees by token usage.
The company wasn’t software based. I had no idea what this fucking clown was talking about. No specifics. Just platitudes and bombast.
Oh, they are suffering alright.
I was offered a job in one of Floridas highest cost of living cities recently. I didn’t apply to it. They headhunted me. I am a software engineer with 20+ years behind me in my career.
55k a year
No benefits
In office only
Scope: CEO has vibe coded our internal systems to a complete mess, needs bailout.
“In other words, Levie’s theory posits, CEOs don’t really understand processes well enough to know what really can and can’t be automated. But that lack of knowledge doesn’t stop them from acting on their beliefs.”
The slimmed down theory (probably more a Law):
CEOs don’t really understand, but that lack of knowledge doesn’t stop them from acting on their beliefs.
“Apparently” should lift with its knees.
I think they’re suffering from many mental illnesses to be honest.
I’m pretty sure chasing infinite profits causes psychosis but sure let’s blame AI
Billionaires shouldn’t exist.
Good. Fuck em!