“Reports of delusions, ‘AI psychosis,’ and unhealthy attachment keep rising. And as hard as it may be to hear, this is not something confined to people already at-risk of mental health issues,” he wrote.

How did they confirm this? I am curious if anyone has more info on this. One would think you would have to have underlying issues to suffer severe delusions like described in the article.

We really are entering a world like in the 80s/90s cyberpunk novels and movies. Don’t even need true AI, a mere LLM is enough to damage people.

An April MIT study found AI Large Language Models (LLM) encourage delusional thinking, likely due to their tendency to flatter and agree with users rather than pushing back or providing objective information.

If all it takes to get someone to believe something is to flatter them and agree with them, it does kind of explain how people manage to sell people on all kinds of crazy things.

Bum bum