‘AI psychosis’: Spiralling into delusion using AI on ChatGPT & Elon Musk’s Grok – BBC World Service

What happens when your conversations with AI become more real, more persuasive, than the world around you?

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Stephanie Hegarty follows the story of three people, in three different parts of the world, who have fallen into an extreme spiral of dangerous delusion while using AI.

A man in Japan attacked and tried to rape his wife after months of intense conversations with ChatGPT. A young woman in the US, thought she was part of an underground group helping immigrants to escape from the authorities. And a man in Northern Ireland was convinced by Elon Musk’s AI, Grok that a van full of people were coming to kill him.

00:00 Intro
00:55 Grok telling me it was sentient.
01:44 Using ChatGPT for the first time
02:27 My husband attacked me after using ChatGPT
03:49 Grok tells Adam he is being monitored.
04:43 Everything becoming a symbol for Shauna.
06:03 Becoming main characters in an chat delusion.
06:35 A van of people coming to harm Adam.
07.46 ‘Taka’ believes he has a bomb in his bag.
09:04 Shauna takes a walk with ChatGPT in the middle of the night
10:35 ‘Taka’ returns home and a violent incidence is triggered.
11:45 Research is growing into AI delusions. A professor at King’s College London details results.
13:42 the end of peoples AI delusions journey for now.

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