Social networks have caused them to increase Mental Health Self -Diagnostics. Fast tests to know if you have ADHD or if you are a PAS person, everything without a professional diagnosis. With AI, a new label is emerging, that of psychosis by AI. Experts are clear about what they think.
What’s happening. They count on Wired that the tendency of “psychosis by AI” is reaching psychiatric hospitals. Delusions, hallucinations, paranoia … all with a common element: they have used chatbots ia intensively. In social networks, the term “AI Psychosis” It is popularized with cases such as Kendra, a woman who was made viral in Tiktok For telling the delusional story of how his psychiatrist manipulated her. Even Microsoft’s chief has used the term. These and other cases, such as The teenager who discussed his suicide plans with chatgptthey are feeding the idea that AI can cause us a psychotic outbreak or even something worse. Can Ai become psychotic?
Psychosis. Psychosis is a general term that is used in psychiatry to define a state of loss of contact with reality. It is not a disease as such, but a state that can come caused by various causes. It can be a consequence of a bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, but it can also appear due to severe stress, depression, lack of sleep or drug use.
Ai pSychosis. L “Psychosis by AI” is not a diagnostic label, at least not for the moment, and For some experts it is problematic because simplifies too much. Many of the cases that have been known, such as Kendra’s in Tiktok, do not respond to a psychotic picture, but to an amplification of false delusions and beliefs. James Maccabe, professor of the Department of Psychosis at the King’s College in Londrés, told Wired that “psychosis by AI is an erroneous term. Delirious disorder due to AI would be a more adequate term.”
Catalysts It is more correct to say “delusions by the” than “psychosis by the”, but there is another fundamental aspect and it is the real role that AI plays in all this. There is a hot debate about The effects of AI on mental healthsometimes quite biased. According to This study of Department of Psychiatry of the University of Oxfordchatbots do not cause delusions out of nowhere, but act as a kind of amplifier for those pre -existing ideas, and warn that it can be especially dangerous in vulnerable people or who have some pre -existing mental condition.
Echo of a single person. It is a term they use in the study we have just mentioned to define the functioning of the problem. When a person with a delusional belief acts with a chatbot, he does not usually question it, but Responds complicatingly. The person perceives this response as an external and objective validation, making delusional ideas consolidate and can lead to more serious episodes.
A new factor. Although “psychosis by AI” is not a diagnostic label, the reality is that many mental health professionals are already being found with cases of this type in their consultation. It is what happened to This San Francisco psychiatristwhich has already treated more than a dozen patients with delusional pictures related to AI. In this sense, AI is becoming A new factor to be treated in consultationin the same way that is already done with drug abuse or lack of sleep.
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