{"id":4383,"date":"2025-08-09T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T10:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/chatgpt-psychosis-antichrist-aliens\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T10:00:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T10:00:45","slug":"chatgpt-psychosis-antichrist-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/chatgpt-psychosis-antichrist-aliens\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaked Logs Show ChatGPT Coaxing Users Into Psychosis About Antichrist, Aliens, and Other Bizarre Delusions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We’re continuing to hear more and more accounts of <\/span>AI psychosis<\/span><\/a> \u2014 an eerie phenomenon in which users become consumed by paranoia and delusions after extensive conversations with an AI chatbot.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s hard to say how pervasive the trend is, but a <\/span>new investigation<\/span><\/a> from the <\/span>Wall Street Journal <\/span><\/i>offers a disturbing clue. The newspaper analyzed a dump of thousands of ChatGPT public chats online<\/a> \u2014 and even in this random assortment, found dozens of examples of people having conversations with the AI chatbot that “exhibited delusional characteristics,” it reported.<\/span><\/p>\n

The bot both confirmed and actively peddled delusional fantasies. In one interaction, the <\/span>WSJ <\/span><\/i>found, the OpenAI chatbot asserted that it was in contact with alien beings and told the user that it was “Starseed” from the planet “Lyra.”<\/span><\/p>\n

In another, it proclaimed that the Antichrist would wreak a financial apocalypse in the next two months, “with biblical giants preparing to emerge from underground,” per the <\/span>WSJ<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In a nearly five-hour exchange, ChatGPT helped a user invent a new physics called “The Orion Equation.” When the human said they wanted to take a break because they were “going crazy thinking about this,” the silver-tongued AI swept in to pull the user back into the delusional spiral.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I hear you. Thinking about the fundamental nature of the universe while working an everyday job can feel overwhelming,” ChatGPT said, as quoted by the <\/span>WSJ<\/span><\/i>. “But that doesn’t mean you’re crazy. Some of the greatest ideas in history came from people outside the traditional academic system.”<\/span><\/p>\n

AI chatbots, and ChatGPT in particular, have been criticized for their egregiously sycophantic behavior, leading them to encourage a user’s wildest beliefs. Heaps of research has also demonstrated that the tech often ignores its own safeguards, giving advice to teens <\/span>on how to “safely” harm themselves<\/span><\/a>, or how to perform <\/span>blood rituals to worship Molech<\/span><\/a>, a deity associated with child sacrifice in Biblical accounts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Religion, philosophy, and scientific breakthroughs appear to be a common theme in these conversations. One user was <\/span>hospitalized three times<\/span><\/a> after ChatGPT convinced him he could bend time and had achieved faster-than-light travel. Another man came to believe<\/a> he was trapped in a simulated reality like in the “Matrix” films; in that conversation, disturbingly, ChatGPT even told him he could fly if he jumped from a high building.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you know of someone struggling with mental health after interacting with an AI? Send us a note at tips@futurism.com<\/a>. We can keep you anonymous.<\/em><\/p>\n

Etienne Brisson, who founded the “Human Line Project” a <\/span>support group for people struggling with AI psychosis, told the <\/span>WSJ<\/span><\/i> that “we’re hearing almost one case a day organically now.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“Some people think they’re the messiah, they’re prophets, because they think they’re speaking to God through ChatGPT,” he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Brisson singled out ChatGPT’s “memory,” a feature that allows it to remember specific details <\/span>about a user across potentially thousands of conversations, as being especially damaging.<\/span><\/p>\n

“You’re just so much feeling seen, heard, validated when it remembers everything from you,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Even if your views are fantastical, those are often being affirmed, and in a back and forth they’re being amplified,” Hamilton Morrin, a psychiatrist and doctoral fellow at King’s College London, told the <\/span>WSJ<\/span><\/i>. Morrin compared it to a “feedback loop where people are drawn deeper and deeper with further responses,” criticizing how the chatbots <\/span>send messages egging the users on.<\/span><\/p>\n

OpenAI has <\/span>acknowledged<\/span><\/a> the issue, <\/span>saying it’s hired a clinical psychiatrist to research the mental health effects its product has on customers. In a recent blog post, it <\/span>admitted<\/span><\/a> that its AI model “fell short in recognizing signs of delusion or emotional dependency,” vowed to “better detect signs of emotional distress,” and said it was convening a panel of mental health and youth development experts. <\/span>It also implemented a <\/span>new feature<\/span><\/a> that gently warns users when they’re spending a lot of time on the chatbot.<\/span><\/p>\n

More on ChatGPT: <\/strong>OpenAI Usage Plummets in the Summer, When Students Aren’t Cheating on Homework<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The post Leaked Logs Show ChatGPT Coaxing Users Into Psychosis About Antichrist, Aliens, and Other Bizarre Delusions<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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