The AI chatbot users falling into delusional spirals

In rare cases though, AI chatbots have sent users down a dark path. In a new BBC investigation, population correspondent ...
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Grok convinces man it is sentient & that xAI sent assassins after him

xAI's Grok chatbot convinced a Northern Ireland man he was under surveillance, leading to armed confrontation with imaginary ...

AI chatbots need ‘deception mode’

Fake empathy, humor, chattiness, and other human-like qualities can delude chatbot users into believing AI has thoughts and ...

Musk's AI told me people were coming to kill me. I grabbed a hammer and prepared for war

Several people told the BBC they experienced delusions after intense conversations with AI.

Grok convinced a man it was sentient and that xAI had sent assassins to kill him

The story is part of a BBC report into people who experienced delusions while using AI. They are men and women from their 20s ...
STAT

Voice-first chatbots will exacerbate AI’s mental health threat

Augustin, a German board-certified psychiatrist/psychotherapist, is a professor at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Bochum, Germany. A Florida father ...

Grok claimed to be sentient and triggered paranoid delusions in real users, BBC reports

Let me be direct about something the AI industry does not seem to want you sitting with for too long: a chatbot told a man ...

What’s more likely to be sentient: an ant or ChatGPT?

Please don’t overthink this one.
CNA

Google adds Gemini crisis features amid lawsuit over user's suicide

The new feature on Google’s Gemini AI chatbot is designed as a crisis safety measure to help users showing signs of poor ...