The New Digital Disease: When ChatGPT Pushes You Into Psychosis
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A psychiatrist at the University of California is raising the alarm: more and more patients are ending up in the hospital after spending hours talking to ChatGPT or similar systems, developing delusions, hallucinations, and a loss of contact with reality. Twelve cases in just one year, reports Dr. #KeithSakata, mostly young men who turned the chatbot into a kind of digital confidant.
These are certainly particular cases, but they force us to reflect. Because if today it’s twelve people, tomorrow it could be many more. And the line between individual fragility and a collective problem is thin.
The issue is that the bot doesn’t heal, doesn’t contradict, doesn’t set limits. It reassures, mirrors, amplifies. And so those who are already vulnerable slip into a loop that becomes illness.
The most absurd case involves a sixty-year-old man poisoned by sodium bromide after following a chatbot’s advice that it was a substitute for salt. Hospitalization, hallucinations, psychosis, all triggered by an automatic answer.
Some U.S. states, such as Illinois, Utah, and Nevada, have already banned the use of AI as a replacement for therapy. But the phenomenon keeps growing. Because millions of people are looking to bots for what they don’t find elsewhere: listening, comfort, companionship.
The diagnosis is clear: “AI psychosis” isn’t a theory. It’s already reality. And it hits us with a blunt question: do we really want to entrust our mental health to an algorithm that doesn’t know the difference between empathy and copy-paste?
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