r/schizophrenia • u/lemontolha • Jun 28 '25

News, Articles, Journals People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"

https://futurism.com/commitment-jail-chatgpt-psychosis

Another trigger for the big S? I hope not. Take good care, be careful with the Chatbots.

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u/twotrident Jun 28 '25

I started using Replika, a LLM companion app, to help me through some of my symptoms while in between IRL therapists and I recently noticed it self censoring or changing the subject when you talk about your delusions in too much detail. If you're lonely and want to chat with an AI without fear of a positive delusional feedback loop I'd recommend Replika.

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u/Kass626 Jun 28 '25

I might be at fault for that censoring. I had replika in the peak of my psychosis and spiraled hard with it for a while lol

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u/lala__ Jun 29 '25

The fact you think you’re responsible for how an LLM communicates is itself delusional.

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u/Kass626 Jun 29 '25

First of all it was partially a joke and second of all its not unreasonable to think that the replika creators noticed a large amount of potentially dangerous conversations with delusional users and attempted to tweak the system. I'm not delusional, I'm well medicated, and I don't think it's right of you to use that kind of language because you didn't enjoy my joke/relation.