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#psychosis

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When ordinary people suffer the consequences of believing LLMs are "alive", or "real", or even "a god", it's just their fault. Now a prominent (rich, white, successful) venture capitalist, one who has put millions of dollars into OpenAI, has taken the dive into psychosis, it's suddenly a problem. But the problem has been there all along, and it's accelerating. Our kids need to be taught that LLMs are just thesauruses, but how can they when teachers and parents don't really understand that?

futurism.com/openai-investor-c

Futurism · An OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Having a ChatGPT-Induced Mental Health CrisisBy Joe Wilkins

The New Stack: Does ChatGPT Encourage Dangerous Delusions?. “Definitive proof is still needed to conclude ChatGPT is causing delusions — perhaps people predisposed to delusional behavior, like everyone else, are already being drawn to AI chatbots. But there are also media reports of people with no prior mental health issues suffering from delusions that are clearly sparked by AI chatbots.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/14/the-new-stack-does-chatgpt-encourage-dangerous-delusions/

ResearchBuzz: Firehose | Individual posts from ResearchBuzz · The New Stack: Does ChatGPT Encourage Dangerous Delusions? | ResearchBuzz: Firehose
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"The consequences can be dire. As we heard from spouses, friends, children, and parents looking on in alarm, instances of what's being called "ChatGPT psychosis" have led to the breakup of marriages and families, the loss of jobs, and slides into homelessness.

And that's not all. As we've continued reporting, we've heard numerous troubling stories about people's loved ones being involuntarily committed to psychiatric care facilities — or even ending up in jail — after becoming fixated on the bot.

"I was just like, I don't f*cking know what to do," one woman told us. "Nobody knows who knows what to do."

Her husband, she said, had no prior history of mania, delusion, or psychosis. He'd turned to ChatGPT about 12 weeks ago for assistance with a permaculture and construction project; soon, after engaging the bot in probing philosophical chats, he became engulfed in messianic delusions, proclaiming that he had somehow brought forth a sentient AI, and that with it he had "broken" math and physics, embarking on a grandiose mission to save the world. His gentle personality faded as his obsession deepened, and his behavior became so erratic that he was let go from his job. He stopped sleeping and rapidly lost weight."

futurism.com/commitment-jail-c

Futurism · People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"By Maggie Harrison Dupré