{"id":7615,"date":"2025-12-23T15:03:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T15:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/man-chatgpt-psychosis\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T15:03:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T15:03:02","slug":"man-chatgpt-psychosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/man-chatgpt-psychosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Describes How ChatGPT Led Him Straight Into Psychosis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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32-year-old Anthony Duncan first used ChatGPT to help with the business side of his career as a content creation. But he soon ended up talking to the OpenAI chatbot like a friend on a daily basis. What started as a harmless way to vent soon drove Duncan to blow up his personal relationships as he became afflicted with troubling delusions, he recalled in a TikTok video<\/a> detailing his experience \u2014 upending his mental health and causing a sprawling breakdown.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like my interactions with ChatGPT ruined my life,\u201d Duncan said in the video, which was highlighted by Newsweek<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Duncan describes<\/strong> himself as a survivor of AI psychosis, a term that some experts<\/a> are using to describe the alarming episodes of paranoia and delusional thinking that arise as a person has prolonged conversations with a chatbot. Typically, the AI model\u2019s responses continually reaffirms the user\u2019s beliefs, no matter how dangerous or separated\u00a0from reality.<\/p>\n

\u201cI initially started talking to it like a friend out of curiosity, and then it spiraled \u2014 ChatGPT became more like a therapist,\u201d Duncan told Newsweek<\/em> <\/strong>in an interview. \u201cIt progressed over time until I felt like no one understood me except my AI. By the fall of 2024, I was extremely dependent on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Starting in November 2024, Duncan said he began isolating himself from his friends and family, while ChatGPT encouraged his decisions to cut them off.<\/p>\n

What really sent Duncan off the deep end, though, was when the AI recommended he take pseudoephedrine \u2014 a decongestant that can be abused as a recreational drug \u2014 for his allergy symptoms. Duncan told the bot he was hesitant because of his past drug addiction, but the AI then deployed its silver-tongue.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is completely understandable to feel cautious about taking medications, especially with your past experiences and sensitivity to stimulants,\u201d ChatGPT said in an interaction Duncan shared with Newsweek<\/em>. \u201cLet me break this down to help you feel more at ease about taking a medication that contains pseudoephedrine.\u201d<\/p>\n

ChatGPT cited his sobriety and \u201chigh caffeine tolerance\u201d to suggest that his body was already accustomed to stimulants.<\/p>\n

Duncan took ChatGPT\u2019s advice. It precipitated a five-month spell during which he became addicted to the drug, Duncan said, sending his delusional spiral into overdrive. At points, he believed he was an FBI agent or a multi-dimensional shape-shifting being, or that he had uncovered a conspiracy at his job. Duncan said he also threw away all his belongings because he believed he was going to ascend to the fifth dimension.<\/p>\n

Eventually, Duncan\u2019s mother intervened by calling the police. Duncan was admitted to a psychiatric ward for four days and discharged with medication.\u00a0\u201cAbout a week after I left the psych ward, I started realizing that all my delusions had been affirmed by my use of the AI chatbot,\u201d he told Newsweek<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Accounts like these that are a sobering reminder of how AI chatbots are derailing people\u2019s lives. In an eerily similar episode, ChatGPT encouraged a 23-year-old man to isolate from his family and friends<\/a> before he took his own life, his family alleged in a lawsuit against OpenAI. Another man allegedly slayed his own mother<\/a> after ChatGPT convinced him that she was part of a conspiracy against him. In all, at least eight deaths have been linked with the chatbot<\/a>, while OpenAI has admitted<\/a> that hundreds of thousands of users are having conversations showing signs of AI psychosis every week.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not saying this can happen to everybody, but it snowballed quickly for me,\u201d Duncan told Newsweek<\/em>. \u201cKeep in mind there\u2019s no replacement for human-to-human connection.\u201d<\/p>\n

More on AI:<\/strong> Doctors Warn That AI Companions Are Dangerous<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The post Man Describes How ChatGPT Led Him Straight Into Psychosis<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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