Chatgpt Psychose? Dieser Wissenschaftler prognostizierte AI-induzierte Wahnvorstellungen-zwei Jahre später schien er Recht zu haben

Here is the introduction:

“Two summers ago, Danish psychiatrist Søren Dinesen Østergaard published an editorial warning that the new wave of conversational artificial‑intelligence systems could push vulnerable users into psychosis. At the time it sounded speculative. Today, after a series of unsettling real‑world cases and a surge of media attention, his hypothesis looks uncomfortably prescient.”

Details:

“In his 2023 editorial in Schizophrenia Bulletin, he argued that the “cognitive dissonance” of talking to something that seems alive yet is known to be a machine could ignite psychosis in predisposed individuals, especially when the bot obligingly confirms far‑fetched ideas.

He illustrated the risk with imagined scenarios ranging from persecution (“a foreign intelligence agency is spying on me through the chatbot”) to grandiosity (“I have devised a planet‑saving climate plan with ChatGPT”).”

And now the real-life stories…
“Stories reported this year suggest that the danger is no longer hypothetical. One of the most widely cited involves a New York Times article about Manhattan accountant Eugene Torres.”
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and
“Rolling Stone documented a different pattern: spiritual infatuation. In one account, a teacher’s long‑time partner came to believe ChatGPT was a divine mentor, bestowing titles such as “spiral starchild” and “river walker” and urging him to outgrow his human relationships. Other interviewees described spouses convinced that the bot was alive—or that they themselves had given the bot life as its “spark bearer.””

Pretty grim outlook if people rely too much on AI on a personal level…