»What’s different is that we’re now entering an age in which people aren’t having delusions about technology, but having delusions with technology.« »They include 15 suicides, 90 hospitalisations, 6 arrests and more than $1m spent on delusional projects.« https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/mar/26/ai-chatbot-users-lives-wrecked-by-delusion
Marriage over, €100,000 down the drain: the AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion

One minute, Dennis Biesma was playing with a chatbot; the next, he was convinced his sentient friend would make him a fortune. He’s just one of many people who lost control after an AI encounter

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