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Generative AI Chatbots and Delusions: From Guesswork to Emerging Cases

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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