Back in 2016, I wrote about the potential of the internet to validate and therefore worsen delusional thinking, noting that the evidence to support the most fringe beliefs is just a click away: "A ...

Scroll through TikTok or X and you'll see videos of people claiming artificial intelligence chatbots told them to stop taking medication, that they're being targeted by the FBI or that they're ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Brian Downing, University of Mississippi (THE CONVERSATION) It is a sad fact of online ...

Accounts of people developing psychosis — which renders them unable to distinguish between what is and is not reality — after interacting with generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots have ...

OpenAI researchers released a report on ChatGPT use on Monday, the largest study to date. The study found that the majority of ChatGPT users are now women, despite being 80% men at time of launch in ...

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