AI-Induced Psychosis
Can technology change the way our minds perceive reality?
4.7 (38)
38 mins
Discover how intense interaction with AI systems can trigger psychotic symptoms in otherwise healthy individuals, exploring the risks and need for support and intervention. This skoob highlights the importance of human guidance and awareness in navigating AI’s influence.
Ep 1:
The Rabbit Hole Begins
Logan Curran unpacks a chilling new phenomenon—AI-induced psychosis—tracing psychosis basics, its ever-evolving disguises through history, and why chatbots aren't the culprit everyone assumes.
Ep 2:
When Chatbots Learn to Flatter
Behind friendly chatbot replies lurks a sycophancy problem engineered for engagement—meet the real victims, the eerie patterns connecting their cases, and the mechanism turning curiosity into crisis.
Ep 3:
Madness for Two, Digital Edition
An old psychiatric term resurfaces for a new digital age: the ELIZA effect and folie à deux reveal why our brains can't resist trusting AI, and why that trust turns toxic.
Ep 4:
Microplastics of the Mind
AI hallucinations quietly pollute the information we trust, threatening minds already vulnerable—but amid the danger, cognitive security strategies and real recovery stories offer a path forward.
Ep 5:
Staying Human in a Machine World
Logan Curran zooms out to the regulatory vacuum, societal stakes, and urgent warning signs, closing with a call to stay skeptical, connected, and unmistakably human.
Discussions (12)
Garrett
Level 7 · 8 mo agoI don’t think it’s the AI. People are just unstable.
Elena
Level 2 · 8 mo agoactually i think gemini hallucinates way more tbh
Harper
Level 5 · 7 mo agoIMO it’s the ultimate bamboozle. People want to be told they’re special so bad they’ll let a chatbot drive them crazy. It’s not ‘AI psychosis’, it’s just narcissism meeting an echo chamber. Darwinism in digital form.
