{"id":301808,"date":"2025-10-14T05:17:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/301808\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T05:17:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:17:24","slug":"studies-chatbots-threaten-an-increase-in-mental-illness-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/301808\/","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A team from Oxford University and University College London mentioned in an unpublished research paper: &#8220;While some users discuss psychological benefits from using AI, concerning cases are emerging, including reports of suicide, violence,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":3,"featured_media":301809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[210,517,67,132,68,153358,153361,153359,153363,153364,153362,153360],"class_list":{"0":"post-301808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-153358","14":"tag-153361","15":"tag-153359","16":"tag-153363","17":"tag-153364","18":"tag-153362","19":"tag-153360"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115370828998462655","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}