To be clear: these are people who were already on the edge of sanity before. People be cray.
this post was submitted on 14 May 2026
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The article does not say, or imply that. In fact, it goes out of it's way to say that mental health professionals don't have a good understanding of this phenomena. Do you have a source Senator Armstrong?
It talks mostly about one person who was dealing with PTSD before using it and an other who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder afterwards.
I'm guessing AI has some kind of amplifying effect but it's not taking sane people and making them crazy. It's more akin to lsd being a trigger for schizophrenics from what I understand.
It's elementary that people who are susceptible to this kind of thing must necessarily be prone to things like magical thinking, accepting things as true without sufficient evidence, addictive personality.
You just don't go from being a rational, wrll-balanced person to having paranormal grandiose delusions with a chat bot. There's something else going on.
If everyone in my area who has AI psychosis needed to be helped, they'd need to re-purpose the latest data center being built as a mental health facility.
I'm at the point I'm just like Carlin- at least I get a front row seat for it.
If everyone in my area who has AI psychosis needed to be helped, they’d need to re-purpose the latest data center being built as a mental health facility.
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There’s a very recent 2 episode series on Behind the Bastards precisely on this. Highly recommend to give it a listen!