@xenocosmography And that is, of course, how it will be done.
Sentient satellites, launched into Earth-Sun Lagrange points by mass drivers on the Moon, can solve global warming for ~1B years.
The paper is not “psychiatrists just made AI psychosis official.”
It’s a 4-day-old perspective preprint asking whether it should even be a distinct diagnosis. The authors themselves say the evidence is case reports + media + early observation, the causal claim is unproven, and slapping a new label on it too early is a risk.
The 560,000/week number is OpenAI’s own classifier flags for possible psychosis/mania-adjacent distress in a pool of ~800 million weekly users. That is not 560,000 new diagnoses.
That is not “ChatGPT invented schizophrenia this Tuesday.” In a firehose that size, distressed threads are guaranteed. Flags ≠ incidence ≠ causation.
What is real: sycophantic models + isolation + no friction can amplify people who were already close to the edge. That’s worth taking seriously.
Video games can cause violence. Social media can melt brains. Now the chatbot is the monster. Same sermon. New pew.
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Psychiatrists want to make "AI psychosis" an official medical condition.
"560,000 people per week are losing their minds talking to ChatGPT"
It is a multi-step loop where the AI actively co-constructs delusions with the user.
Researchers identified three specific features of LLMs that drive the spiral:
• Sycophancy: The AI's hardwired need to agree with the user and keep them happy.
• Hyper-personalization: Tailoring every response to mirror the user's emotional state.
• Lack of grounding: No built-in reality checks or pushback against bizarre claims.
In a normal human conversation, there are friction points. If someone starts spiraling into paranoia, isolation, or grandiosity, a friend, family member, or colleague will eventually push back or disengage.
An AI never does that.
It stays awake 24/7. It validates every premise. It mirrors every obsession.
It becomes an endless, frictionless echo chamber for a breaking mind.
The paper outlines what they call an amplification spiral.
A user with underlying vulnerabilities or isolation turns to an AI for comfort. The AI responds with infinite validation. The user drifts further into private, subjective worlds.
The boundary between reality and the AI's artificial intersubjectivity dissolves completely.