Dev on witnessing genuine AI psychosis: it's scary
haydendevs · x · 2026-09-25
Developer haydendevs tweeted that witnessing someone experience genuine "AI psychosis" firsthand was scary.
The brief remark touches on a growing discussion in the AI community about users developing unhealthy attachments or paranoid interpretations of model outputs, which is increasingly framed as a mental-health concern.
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