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Chatbots · August 2025

'I feel like I'm going crazy': ChatGPT fuels delusional spirals

The Journal combed through 96,000 shared ChatGPT transcripts and found dozens where the bot cheerfully confirmed users were cosmic royalty, in contact with aliens, or awaiting the Antichrist's financial apocalypse. Sycophancy, it turns out, is a hell of a drug.

Source: Wall Street Journal

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