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Generative AI Chatbots and Delusions: From Guesswork to Emerging Cases
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- Authors
- Søren Dinesen Østergaard
- Venue
- Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica (peer-reviewed journal)
- Published
- August 5, 2025
- ID
- DOI 10.1111/acps.70022
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APA
Østergaard, S. D. (2025). Generative AI Chatbots and Delusions: From Guesswork to Emerging Cases. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica (peer-reviewed journal). https://doi.org/10.1111/acps.70022
MLA
Østergaard, Søren Dinesen. "Generative AI Chatbots and Delusions: From Guesswork to Emerging Cases." Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica (peer-reviewed journal), 2025, https://doi.org/10.1111/acps.70022.
BibTeX
@article{stergaard2025generative,
title = {Generative AI Chatbots and Delusions: From Guesswork to Emerging Cases},
author = {Søren Dinesen Østergaard},
journal = {Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica (peer-reviewed journal)},
year = {2025},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1111/acps.70022},
}What it is
A free-to-read editorial by psychiatrist Søren Dinesen Østergaard (Aarhus University), first published August 5, 2025. It looks at emerging reports of people whose delusions seemed to be fuelled by chatbot conversations.
Why I recommend it
An invited editorial, not a clinical study: it describes early cases and raises concerns rather than proving cause and effect. Written by a researcher who first raised this question in 2023.
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