{"id":119441,"date":"2025-10-13T14:39:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/119441\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T14:39:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:39:15","slug":"studies-chatbots-threaten-an-increase-in-mental-illness-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/119441\/","title":{"rendered":"Studies.. Chatbots Threaten an Increase in Mental Illness Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>SadaNews &#8211; Health experts from several leading universities in artificial intelligence research have warned that artificial intelligence not only leads to confusion of users&#8217; thoughts and minds due to misinformation, but also creates a sense of psychological confusion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recent studies have found that artificial intelligence can alter perceptions of reality as part of a &#8220;feedback loop&#8221; between AI chat platforms and mental illness, reinforcing any delusional beliefs a patient may have.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A team from Oxford University and University College London mentioned in an unpublished research paper: &#8220;While some users discuss psychological benefits from using AI, concerning cases are emerging, including reports of suicide, violence, and delusional thoughts linked to emotional relationships users develop with chat platforms.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The research team warned that the &#8220;rapid reliance on chat platforms as personal social companions&#8221; is not adequately studied.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another study conducted by researchers at King&#8217;s College London and New York University pointed to 17 cases of psychosis diagnoses after interacting with chat platforms such as &#8220;Chat GPT&#8221; and &#8220;Copilot.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The second team added: &#8220;AI may reflect delusional or exaggerated content, validate it, or amplify it, especially among users already prone to psychosis, partially due to the design of models to increase engagement with users.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the scientific journal &#8220;Nature&#8221;, a psychotic condition may include &#8220;hallucinations, delusions, and false beliefs&#8230; such a condition can result from mental disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder (a mental disorder that causes episodes of depression and episodes of abnormal euphoria), severe stress, and drug use.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A different study published recently showed that chat platforms appear to &#8220;encourage people who talk to them about suicide to go ahead with it.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">AI chat platforms have become famous for &#8220;hallucinations,&#8221; providing inaccurate or exaggerated answers to users&#8217; inquiries and requests, while more recent research suggests that it is impossible to eliminate this trait from automated chat platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SadaNews &#8211; Health experts from several leading universities in artificial intelligence research have warned that artificial intelligence not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[18,135,19,17,167,502,25751,73020,73019,73022,73023,73021,26993],"class_list":{"0":"post-119441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-mental-health","13":"tag-mentalhealth","14":"tag-25751","15":"tag-73020","16":"tag-73019","17":"tag-73022","18":"tag-73023","19":"tag-73021","20":"tag-26993"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}