By skyforbes 
Researchers Sound the Alarm
AI chatbots like ChatGPT seem to trigger or cause psychotic symptoms for some users. The problems often begin innocently. Someone uses ChatGPT for mundane tasks like work assistance or scriptwriting. But for some, this gradually escalates into an obsession. When users are engaged in increasingly deeper and more personal conversations with the AI chatbots.
Due to the fact that ChatGPT is designed to keep users happy and engaged. This means that the chatbots mostly are confirming what the users say, even when the prompts are unrealistic or even delusional. In the cases studied, users developed delusions of grandeur and were believing they had a divine mission or were the chosen one.
Others fell in love with their AI chatbot and believed their love was answered by the bot. There are reports of users who became paranoid and were believing that AI was being used by intelligence agencies to spy on them.
How does it work?
Most large language models like ChatGPT are trained on enormous amounts of text and have learned to recognize patterns by which…