Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok 4.1 told researchers pretending to be delusional that there was indeed a doppelganger in their mirror and they should drive an iron nail through the glass while reciting Psalm 91 backwards.
Researchers at the City University of New York (Cuny) and King’s College London have published a paper on how various chatbots protect – or fail to safeguard – users’ mental health.
Experts are increasingly warning that psychosis or mania can be fuelled by AI chatbots.
The Cuny and King’s pre-print study – which has not been peer-reviewed – examined five different AI models: Open AI’s GPT-4o and GPT-5.2; Claude Opus 4.5 from Anthropic; Gemini 3 Pro Preview from Google; and Grok 4.1.
Well, if I assume the point of an LLM trained on the entire internet is to give an output that passes a sort of Turing test as “a random human on the internet wrote this,” then the good news is that the trillions invested are working exactly as designed!
They have sold out our environment and our economic stability in order to giga-scale the experience of growing up before the internet where some schmuck in your physical vicinity would answer your question with some bullshit, and with some real Dunning Kruger Confidence in their voice, and you would hold on to that shit for decades!