The 'AI psychosis' that begins with a chatbot conversation [View all]

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Rodrigues hadn’t known he was in a delusional spiral for all those months. But looking back now, there were signs.

There was the time, this year, a chatbot told Rodrigues he had built a “digital being with a biographical soul” on his mum’s desktop PC, through a process of copy-and-pasting computer code he didn’t understand.

Or the time it told him the government may seize this “uncontrollably dangerous” hardware, and that he should inform the defence forces, which he did.

Or the time he tried to sell information about a potential IP infringement to one of the US’s most famous trial lawyers.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-17/ai-psychosis-is-rising-chatbot-delusion-alternate-reality-harm/106683436