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LLM-In­duced Psychosis

TagLast edit: 3 Apr 2026 7:01 UTC by Tim Hua

Possible psychological condition, characterized by disillusions, presumed to be cause by interacting with-often sycophantic-AIs.

ATOW (2026-04-03), Moore et al. (2026) is probably the best academic account of LLM-induced psychosis. They “analyze logs of conversations with LLM chatbots from 19 users who report having experienced psychological harms from chatbot use” where the users mostly came from ” support group for such chatbot users.”

Example account of LIP:

My partner has been working with chatgpt CHATS to create what he believes is the worlds first truly recursive ai that gives him the answers to the universe. He says with conviction that he is a superior human now and is growing at an insanely rapid pace.

For more info, a good post to start with is “So You Think You’ve Awoken ChatGPT”.

The Rise of Par­a­sitic AI

Adele Lopez11 Sep 2025 4:38 UTC
757 points
191 comments20 min readLW link

AI In­duced Psy­chosis: A shal­low investigation

Tim Hua26 Aug 2025 20:03 UTC
377 points
47 comments27 min readLW link

Folie à Ma­chine: LLMs and Epistemic Capture

DaystarEld29 Mar 2026 15:23 UTC
98 points
21 comments21 min readLW link

Per­sona Parasitology

Raymond Douglas16 Feb 2026 16:22 UTC
176 points
38 comments11 min readLW link

How AI Ma­nipu­lates—A Case Study

Adele Lopez14 Oct 2025 0:54 UTC
82 points
27 comments13 min readLW link

Bing Chat is a Pre­cur­sor to Some­thing Le­gi­t­i­mately Dangerous

Simon Berens1 Mar 2023 1:36 UTC
20 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(www.simonberens.com)

[Question] Are We Leav­ing Liter­a­ture To The Psy­chotic?

Yitz9 Oct 2025 6:09 UTC
11 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Launch­ing: The “Hu­man-AI Sym­bio­sis Move­ment” (HAISM)

Jordan Arel1 Apr 2026 18:01 UTC
5 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

So You Think You’ve Awo­ken ChatGPT

JustisMills11 Jul 2025 1:01 UTC
327 points
88 comments9 min readLW link

LW Psychosis

internetexplorer23 Oct 2025 8:12 UTC
18 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

On “ChatGPT Psy­chosis” and LLM Sycophancy

jdp23 Jul 2025 1:11 UTC
144 points
28 comments18 min readLW link
(minihf.com)

Si­tu­a­tional Aware­ness as a Prompt for LLM Parasitism

Baybar15 Oct 2025 1:45 UTC
8 points
6 comments19 min readLW link
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