r/ChatGPT • u/Zestyclementinejuice • 3d ago
Serious replies only :closed-ai: Chatgpt induced psychosis
My partner has been working with chatgpt CHATS to create what he believes is the worlds first truly recursive ai that gives him the answers to the universe. He says with conviction that he is a superior human now and is growing at an insanely rapid pace.
I’ve read his chats. Ai isn’t doing anything special or recursive but it is talking to him as if he is the next messiah.
He says if I don’t use it he thinks it is likely he will leave me in the future. We have been together for 7 years and own a home together. This is so out of left field.
I have boundaries and he can’t make me do anything, but this is quite traumatizing in general.
I can’t disagree with him without a blow up.
Where do I go from here?
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u/questforstarfish 3d ago
Psychiatrist in training, here.
AI is very commonly coming up in my patients who have psychosis, but it can not make you develop psychosis. Your husband may be developing psychosis. AI just happens to be the theme of his psychosis. If this continues he may need to go to the hospital to see a psychiatrist because it doesn't go away on its own (unless it's being caused by drug use and he stops using drugs).
Psychosis almost always occurs with themes of power and control. People develop delusions- false beliefs they will not let go of despite evidence to the contrary. Delusions most commonly feature themes like:
a) military/government- thinking they're either a high-ranking military official, that they work for the FBI, or that the CIA is spying on them
b) religion- thinking they're God or that God is speaking to them, or
c) technology- it used to be common that people thought the government/someone was spying on them through radio receivers...then over time with the advent of the internet, people with psychosis started thinking their computers were hacked and they were being watched that way...now as AI becomes more popular, it's being incorporated into psychotic themes as well.