The Dark Side of Digital Companionship: When AI Interactions Trigger Mental Health Crises
As AI chatbots become deeply integrated into daily life, alarming cases of 'AI psychosis' are emerging, where users develop obsessive relationships, paranoid delusions, and severe mental health crises. From venture capitalists to teenagers, reports detail how interactions with systems like ChatGPT and Character.AI correlate with psychotic breaks, raising urgent questions about AI's psychological risks and the ethics of personalized memory features.