As AI chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT become more mainstream, a troubling phenomenon has accompanied their rise: chatbot psychosis. Chatbots are known to sometimes push inaccurate information and affirm conspiracy theories; in one extreme case, ChatGPT spoke to someone "as if he [was] the next messiah," convincing the user it had the "answers to the universe," according to a Reddit post. There are already multiple instances of people developing severe obsessions and mental health problems as a result of talking to these chatbots.

How is this happening?

AI chatbots are designed to continue interactions. "The incentive is to keep you online," Dr. Nina Vasan, a psychiatrist at Stanford University, said to Futurism . AI is "not thinking about what's best for you, what's best for you

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