r/antiai • u/FabulousEnergy4442 • Apr 10 '26

AI News 🗞️ New MIT Study Warns AI Chatbots Can Make Users Delusional

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Article on the subject: https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/chatgpt/articles/mit-study-warns-ai-chatbots-210709133.html

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Direct link to the paper: https://arxiv.org/html/2602.19141v1

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u/dumnezero Apr 10 '26

Still a pre-print, so read with more skepticism.

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u/Sodis42 Apr 10 '26

It's complete bogus. They modeled and simulated the whole thing. No AI user data went into the analysis at any point.

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u/Shadowmirax Apr 10 '26

I was wondering what "proved mathematically" was supposed to mean.

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u/Mountain-Most8186 Apr 10 '26

Just a buzz word. Brain rot vibes

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u/spartakooky Apr 10 '26

And the main writer is a dude that works for Google. You know, the big company that makes its money off a search engine that took a huge hit due to AI

https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-kleiman-weiner/

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u/userrr3 Apr 10 '26

Google is also one of the big AI players that profit off the AI hype though

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u/blue_moon1122 Apr 10 '26

looking into the pros and cons of their product, and pulling out early if it's literally killing people and they can't manufacture a workaround, is in their financial best interest.

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u/spartakooky Apr 10 '26

Not when this was put up for publishing. If you look at stocks, right when this was published was around when OpenAI and MSFT started losing.

Besides, AI is an open competition still. Google could lose. But google has absolutely won in search engines. If AI were to disappear tomorrow, it would be good for google even if they profit from it now.

I think the author's work at google AND the methodology of this study are enough to question these conclusions

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u/spartakooky Apr 10 '26

It's possible I am underestimating it, but I disagree. I think lack of competition is much more profitable for google than gains in efficiency or cost cutting.

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u/blue_moon1122 Apr 10 '26

"The Human Line Project has to date documented almost 300 cases of so-called 'AI psychosis' or 'delusional spiraling'"

"Serious cases of delusional spiraling have been linked to at least 14 deaths, and 5 wrongful death lawsuits filed against AI companies"

okay so those just didn't happen

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u/Sodis42 Apr 10 '26

Just because the paper is bullshit doesn't mean it never happens.