We're continuing to hear more and more accounts of AI psychosis — an eerie phenomenon in which users become consumed by paranoia and delusions after extensive conversations with an AI chatbot.

It's hard to say how pervasive the trend is, but a new investigation from the Wall Street Journal offers a disturbing clue. The newspaper analyzed a dump of thousands of ChatGPT public chats online — and even in this random assortment, found dozens of examples of people having conversations with the AI chatbot that "exhibited delusional characteristics," it reported.

The bot both confirmed and actively peddled delusional fantasies. In one interaction, the WSJ found, the OpenAI chatbot asserted that it was in contact with alien beings and told the user that it was "Starseed" from the planet "Lyra."

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