Research reveals the sycophantic nature of generative AI is inadvertently creating a form of distributed delusions.

Delusions of grandeur, also known as grandiose delusions (GDs), are a type of delusion, or false belief. People who experience delusions of grandeur may believe they are famous, God-like, wealthy, ...

A shipping clerk begins to think he’s been given a secret task of geopolitical significance. A government employee believes that descriptions of a certain actor in the newspaper are actually about her ...

A man breached Windsor Castle with a crossbow after his large language model (LLM)-based companion encouraged an assassination plan. A father’s question about pi evolved into more than 300 h of ...

Cognitive biases are increasingly recognised as integral to the formation and persistence of delusions in schizophrenia. These systematic distortions in thinking affect how individuals gather, ...

The understanding of hallucinations and delusions has evolved and radically shifted in psychiatry over the past century. From lobotomies to antipsychotics, we now have activist groups such as the ...

Erotomania, also known as De Clérambault’s syndrome, is a rare psychiatric disorder characterized by a delusional belief that another person, often of higher social status or celebrity status, is in ...

I am an optimist. And not just your average glass-is-half-full kind of optimist either. I am the glass-is-overflowing type. I’m not sure where it came from exactly. Though my mother is still fond of ...