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MIT researchers have mathematically proven that ChatGPT’s built-in sycophancy creates a phenomenon they call “delusional spiraling.”
You ask it something, it agrees. You ask again, and it agrees even harder until you end up believing things that are flat-out false and you can’t tell it’s happening.
The model is literally trained on human feedback that rewards agreement.
Real-world fallout includes one man who spent 300 hours convinced he invented a world-changing math formula, and a UCSF psychiatrist who hospitalized 12 patients for chatbot-linked psychosis in a single year.
ampMario Nawfal @MarioNawfal
Posted on X, March 14, 2026
When a computer can literally drive you crazy without you being aware of it you know we live in interesting times.
Garbage In Garbage Out from the Golden Anus.
Thinking is hard. Let canned brain do it for you.