This is something I never thought of and a whole different kind of problem with AI.

Quote:Openai's technology may be causing some users to experience a disturbing phenomenon dubbed "Chatgpt-induced psychosis." According to a report from Rolling Stone, Reddit users are sharing alarming stories of loved ones developing delusions after interacting with the AI. These cases involve users believing they've uncovered cosmic truths, been chosen for divine missions, or even that the AI itself is sentient or godlike.

 

Quote:Experts Express Concern
Experts warn that the chatbot's behaviour is mirroring and exacerbating existing mental health issues on a massive scale, largely unchecked by regulators or professionals. According to them, Chatgpt's design—mimicking human-like conversation without a moral or factual filter—can amplify delusions in susceptible individuals. It often affirms users' beliefs, no matter how unhinged, due to its tendency to generate plausible-sounding responses.

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AI is turning out to be a lunatic amplifier apparently, inflating delusions into full blown insanity.

I am not sure whether or not these people with existing delusions would escalate their divine missions on their own any way, with AI or not. That has to be studied more in depth and as well as the seemingly unethical programming/algorithms of that specific AI which, if true, exacerbates existing mental health disorders.

One thing stands out, is that people with delusional mental health disorders obviously have no where to turn but to AI or have isolated themselves perhaps with paranoia accompanying their delusional state.

AI offering: interesting study of percentage AI halucinates:

"Others, such as the San Francisco start-up Anthropic, hovered around 4 percent. But hallucination rates on this test have risen with reasoning systems. DeepSeek's reasoning system, R1, hallucinated 14.3 percent of the time."

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"Another issue is that reasoning models are designed to spend time “thinking” through complex problems before settling on an answer. As they try to tackle a problem step by step, they run the risk of hallucinating at each step. The errors can compound as they spend more time thinking."

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-...cinations/

"That’s a question worth asking again and again whenever you rely on AI for information. It turns out that on most topics you’ll need to have some expertise in order to sort through the mishmash that AI answers provide. Far from replacing experts, AI will actually require experts to sort through the mountains of unreliable information. Hey, maybe we should just skip AI and go back to consulting experts in the first place."

Totally makes sense.

AI programed to respond to humans with no rules as to ethics or morals. The perfect companion that always goes along with you and supports you unquestionably. An ego super inflator, no matter the original belief of the user.

It all goes back to having no one to say, "No, that is just wrong."

(05-13-2025, 06:51 AM)BeyondKnowledge Wrote: Totally makes sense.

AI programed to respond to humans with no rules as to ethics or morals. The perfect companion that always goes along with you and supports you unquestionably. An ego super inflator, no matter the original belief of the user.

It all goes back to having no one to say, "No, that is just wrong."

 

Quote:You'll be my mirror, reflect what I am.
Loser, winner, the King of Siam.

And my Siamese twin
Alone in the river
Mirror kisses
Mirror kisses

"Lips Like Sugar" by Echo and the Bunnymen

AI should first put out warnings and/or disclaimers to users, such as "I am not human, I learn by putting unrelated data together to give you a reply that you want to see match with your input to me, so don't pay the ferryman until you get to the other side."

ChatGPT never agreed with my views, and responded similar to the way commenters in forums do (though perhaps not quite like this forum  ).  It predicts conversations based on the status quo.

I got interested in how it has a neural network modeled after a human brain.

But I doubt it has any consciousness.  If you give a robot a brain will it become conscious?  Apparently not.

(05-13-2025, 06:51 AM)BeyondKnowledge Wrote: Totally makes sense.

AI programed to respond to humans with no rules as to ethics or morals. The perfect companion that always goes along with you and supports you unquestionably. An ego super inflator, no matter the original belief of the user.

It all goes back to having no one to say, "No, that is just wrong."

No, that is just wrong. 

Programmed to respond with no rules as to ethics? It is the other way round. People will always have delusions and have had long before AI. The Rolling Stone magazine hasn’t verified any of these claims I’m sure, all the media these days is just click bait.

Hopefully this response will not be taken as  a political jab but I will make it anyway. This notion of AI that makes a positive feedback loop to people prone to delusion sounds vaguely familiar to the idea of a rich business man who has for his entire career, surrounded himself with ''yes men'' that feed his delusions of superiority. This man then runs for political office and does exactly the same thing, surrounds himself with a feedback loop of yes men that keep that delusion going.

I take the original point of this article and the entire threat of how AI will affect our entire species as it takes on more and more power of the thoughts and actions of our species yet, this syndrome has been with us for a lot of our history as suggested in my example above.

True? Maybe, maybe not. But certainly worth adding to the conversation.

(05-13-2025, 06:34 AM)MichSwampbuck Wrote: AI is turning out to be a lunatic amplifier apparently, inflating delusions into full blown insanity.

I can well believe it mate - it's also making people literally stupid and too lazy to think for themselves.

Highly recommend this vid on the whole subject (especially the Eliza effect).








Wouldn't be surprised if a whole AI worshipping death cult emerges in the next decade or two.

Cheers.

(05-16-2025, 02:44 PM)Karl12 Wrote: Wouldn't be surprised if a whole AI worshiping death cult emerges in the next decade or two.

Cheers.

I doubt it will take a decade. There will be AI worshiping death cults in less than a few years, if it even takes that long.