It was inevitable that once people starting noticing the phenomenon, they’d come up with a catchy, descriptive name for it. And sure enough, when one redditor sought help with a partner who had gone down a rabbit hole with ChatGPT to find “the answers to the universe,” she had to sum up the problem somehow — so she called it “ ChatGPT-induced psychosis .”

As similar reports of individuals obsessively using chatbots to develop far-fetched fantasies began to flood the internet, the catchall term “ AI psychosis” gained a place in the lexicon. This month, Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s head of artificial intelligence, used the phrase in a thread on X in which he laid out his concerns about people wrongly believing that the chatbots they use on a daily basis are in some way consciou

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