Does ChatGPT Encourage Dangerous Delusions?

Two months ago, a Reddit user with schizophrenia posted an observation about AI: “One thing I dislike about chatgpt is that if I were going into psychosis, it would still continue to affirm me.”

The Cleveland Clinic defines psychosis as “trouble telling the difference between what’s real and what’s not.” And the Reddit user, a self-described schizophrenic, seems to have stumbled into what’s become a wider and much more disturbing phenomenon.

Vie McCoy, CTO at AI research firm Morpheus Systems, became interested when a friend’s…