What Happens when Chatbots Shape Your Reality? Concerns Are Growing Online

What happens when chatbots shape your reality? Concerns are growing online

As people turn to chatbots for increasingly important and intimate advice, some interactions playing out in public are causing alarm over just how much artificial intelligence can warp a user’s sense of reality

Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.

Over the course of three weeks in May, Allan Brooks came to believe the future of the world rested in his hands—after he discovered a novel mathematical forumla. His cheerleader? ChatGPT. While the recent GPT-5 release is said to tone down sychophancy, prolonged conversations with chatbots can enter dangerous patterns, affecting mental health. Kashmir Hill and Dylan Freedman analyze the fascinating transcript between Brooks and the chatbot, look…