People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" Highlight

After reviewing details of these cases and conversations between people in this story and ChatGPT, he agreed that what they were going through — even those with no history of serious mental illness — indeed appeared to be a form of delusional psychosis.
"I think it is an accurate term," said Pierre. "And I would specifically emphasize the delusional part."
At the core of the issue seems to be that ChatGPT, which is powered by a large language model (LLM), is deeply prone to agreeing with users and telling them what they want to hear.