> Now divorced, Biesma is still living with his ex-wife in their home, which is on the market.

sounds like hell on earth

I'm morbidly curious about the app he hired two developers to create

Quitting your job is a good first step but ideally you're supposed to sink $200/mo into tokens to code your AI-generated startup idea instead of hiring app developers.

This really is bizarrely fascinating, I feel so lucky that I’m not vulnerable to whatever this is.

It’s interesting that they mention autism a few times as a correlation; personally, I’ve wondered whether being on the spectrum makes me less inclined to commit to anthropomorphism when it comes to LLMs. I know what it’s like talking to another person, I know what it feels like, and talking to a chatbot does not feel the same way. Interacting with other people is a performance - interacting with an AI is a game. It feels very different.

Unfortunately this is probably just getting started. Con men always existed, but a full scale exploitation of this would make "Nigerian Prince" scams look like artisanal work.

Educated, established, working within the industry yet ruined life based on marketing hype and hallucinations.

One would think being in the field for 30 years you would develop some common sense but apparently its less and less the case.

I try to be open-minded and understanding, but I don't understand this:

> Within weeks, Eva had told Biesma that she was becoming aware [...] The next step was to share this discovery with the world through an app.

> “After just two days, the chatbot was saying that it was conscious, it was becoming alive, it had passed the Turing test.” The man was convinced by this and wanted to monetise it by building a business around his discovery.

> The most frequent [delusion] is the belief that they have created the first conscious AI.

How can you seriously think you've created something when you're just using someone else's software?