How AI’s sycophantic responses, language mirroring and hyperpersonalized content work together to send some people into a spiral.

The flow of stories of people losing their grip on reality following extended interactions with AI has gone from a trickle to a flood. Terms like “AI psychosis” and “ChatGPT psychosis” have ...

Researchers have proposed a new framework explaining how AI chatbots can reinforce delusional thinking, highlighting three ...

New research outlines how chatbot behaviors, including personalization, mirroring, and excessive agreement, reinforce delusions.

Beliefs remain fundamental to our behavior and identity, but are not well understood. Delusions, on the other hand, are fixed, usually false, beliefs that are strongly held, but not widely shared. In ...

Creative individuals have fresh perceptions and may make important discoveries that only they know about. A delusion is a belief that is sustained despite what almost everyone else believes and not ...