Fact-check: the 300-hour AI psychosis case involved GPT-4o, and the cited paper modeled safeguards, not proof of intent
ChrisGPT · x · 2026-10-01
- ChrisGPT pushes back on million-follower accounts spreading AI psychosis misinformation.
- The real 300-hour case occurred in May 2025 and the lawsuit explicitly names GPT-4o; the widely cited paper merely modeled a hypothetical sycophantic chatbot and tested two safeguards.
- That, he argues, is neither proof OpenAI deliberately designed psychosis into ChatGPT nor that every fix is doomed; he calls the repeated sensationalism embarrassing and destructive.
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