{"id":998540,"date":"2026-03-16T12:05:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998540"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:05:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:35:04","slug":"the-dangers-of-sycophantic-ai-new-study-shows-how-chatbots-are-encouraging-people-with-psychotic-delusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/16\/the-dangers-of-sycophantic-ai-new-study-shows-how-chatbots-are-encouraging-people-with-psychotic-delusions\/","title":{"rendered":"The dangers of sycophantic AI: New study shows how chatbots are encouraging people with psychotic delusions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is plenty of evidence that Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents\u2014chatbots\u2014are prone to hallucinating, that is, making up information that is untrue and doesn\u2019t exist. While this is a serious enough problem that AI companies are trying to control, this can have real world consequences, especially when it comes to exacerbating mental health problems for users.<\/p>\n<p>A new study published in the medical journal Lancet Psychiatry gets to the heart of this problem. The study, titled, Artificial intelligence-associated delusions and large language models: risks, mechanisms of delusion co-creation, and safeguarding strategies, analyses 20 recent media reports on AI delusions or psychosis to understand what reactions this evokes amongst users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is plenty of evidence that Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents\u2014chatbots\u2014are prone to hallucinating, that is, making up information that is untrue and doesn\u2019t exist. While this is a serious enough problem that AI companies are trying to control, this can have real world consequences, especially when it comes to exacerbating mental health problems for users. A new study published in the medical journal Lancet Psychiatry gets to the heart of this problem. The study, titled, Artificial intelligence-associated delusions and large language models: risks, mechanisms of delusion co-creation, and safeguarding strategies, analyses 20 recent media reports on AI delusions or psychosis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}