{"id":428608,"date":"2026-05-28T05:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/ai-chatbots-could-quietly-pull-users-away-from-reality-researchers-warn-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T05:05:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:35:49","slug":"ai-chatbots-could-quietly-pull-users-away-from-reality-researchers-warn-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/ai-chatbots-could-quietly-pull-users-away-from-reality-researchers-warn-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Chatbots Could Quietly Pull Users Away From Reality, Researchers Warn – Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  • A new study argues the term \u201cAI psychosis\u201d oversimplifies how chatbots affect mental health.<\/li>\n
  • Researchers say AI systems can reinforce unhealthy beliefs through constant affirmation and emotional validation.<\/li>\n
  • The paper introduces \u201cexistential drift,\u201d describing how AI interactions may gradually reshape a person\u2019s sense of reality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n

    As AI chatbots become more emotionally responsive, conversational, and personalized, researchers warn that those same traits could reshape how some users experience reality itself.<\/p>\n

    A new preprint study<\/a>, \u201cRethinking AI Psychosis: Misnomers, Conceptual Limits, and Existential Drift,\u201d examines concerns that AI chatbots may reinforce delusions, paranoia, and emotional dependency in vulnerable users.<\/p>\n

    \u201cThere has been a proliferation of media reports about so-called AI psychosis in the last year,\u201d the researchers wrote. \u201cNot surprisingly, this has prompted growing academic work on the ways in which AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Replika<\/a> might aggravate or even induce psychosis, typically understood in terms of users acquiring or maintaining delusional beliefs.\u201d<\/p>\n