The Sci-fi Origins of AI Psychosis

Free Your Feed · Oct 11, 2026 · 1m

Sam Altman tried to make ChatGPT like Samantha, the fictional AI-voice assistant from the movie Her, and it made people go insane.

AI psychosis (AKA chatbot psychosis or chatbot-related delusions) is when someone loses touch with reality after heavy chatbot use. Too often, chatbots repeat fictional sci-fi narratives about sentient or conscious AI as if they were fact, and it can push vulnerable people into a delusional state.

Lebron James is Him. ChatGPT is Her.

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