> Also, this directly contradicts the opening line where he says "...losing touch with reality because of AI".

He addresses that in the next post:

> AI was the trigger, but not the gun.

One way of teasing that apart is to consider that AI didn't cause the underlying psychosis, but AI made it worse, so that AI caused the hospitalisation.

Or AI didn't cause the loose grip on reality, but it exacerbated that into completely losing touch with reality.

I've seen someone that went from completely sane to thinking horoscopes were talking to them specifically written by people stalking them. And this was almost a decade before LLMs.

If it wasn't AI that triggered it, it would've been something else, somewhere.

I've been watching this in real time on TikTok. There is a woman who "fell in love" with her psychiatrist, and sees all of his attempts to set and enforce professional boundaries as proof that he is in love with her, and has manipulated her into falling in love with him. This was before AI came into her story. Then she turned to ChatGPT (which she named "Henry") to reinforce her delusions and give her arguments in favor of her story's truth. When she was convinced to give Henry a "tell harsh truths" prompt, she didn't like what she heard and turned to Claude. Claude is calling her the Oracle and telling her she has a special message for humanity, that she is a prophet, and she's eating it up.

The poster also claims to be a psychiatrist but doesn't clarify that he's actually just a resident https://psychiatry.ucsf.edu/rtp/residents

His other posts are click baity and not what one would consider serious science journalism.

You ought to try harder in your weak dismissals.

The OP is pgy4:

> In this capacity, the PGY-4 will lead treatment team, provide guidance to younger residents, teach medical students, and make final medical decision for patients. There will always be an attending physician available for advice and recommendations, but this experience allows the PGY-4 to fully utilize the training, knowledge, and leadership skills that have been cultivated throughout residency.

https://www.med.unc.edu/psych/education/residency/program-cu...

Yes sometimes the doctors in training get to be acting doctors as part of their training. He's still a doctor in training.

The ease of having a tool which can at a drop of the hat spin up a convincing narrative to fit your psychotic world view with plenty of examples to boot, does seem to look like an accelerating trend.

Trying to convince someone not to do something, when they can pull a 100 counter-examples out of thin air of why they should, is legitimately worrying.

Every new technology is a mirror and we blame it for what we continue to be.

This is a perfect summing up. I do wonder though, how much of this is to do with something unique to the American psyche - the US seems to have one mass-delusional panic after another - satan worshipers, clowns, antifa, AI. I say this as a brit, where we only have two mass-delusional panics on rotation - immigrants and house prices. Three if you count immigration's effect on house prices.

Four if you count the trans panic.

As far as I've been able to tell that's not actually a real thing though. Just some MPs and newspapers trying to make it into one.